On Monday, Page Six reported that Larry King’s widow, Shawn King, was planning to file lawsuits challenging his secret will. On Tuesday, her lawyers filed the documents in a Los Angeles court.
Larry, who died last month at the age of 87, filed for divorce from Shawn in 2019, and a “secret” manuscript will appear last week – which did not mention Shawn and left his $ 2 million property to his children.
But 61-year-old Shawn claims in the newspapers that Larry’s health left him susceptible to “outside influence” and that he may not have even been aware that he was signing the New Testament – in addition, she says. that when she died, she was not Intended to continue the divorce.
“Larry was extremely susceptible to outside influences and at the time he was allegedly executed [new version of his will] he had a questionable mental capacity after recently suffering a stroke and was about to undergo a medical procedure (and possibly already under the influence of pre-operative drugs) “, it was read in the newspapers, according to Blast.
She demands that a 2015 will – which she said was made by Page Six by Shawn and Larry “as a couple” with the help of a lawyer – be recognized as the true will and named as the estate’s executor, according to the document.
He wrote the new version of the will about two months after filing for divorce, but Shawn suggested in court documents that the estranged couple was on the verge of reconciling when he died.
“At the time of Larry’s death, there was a long-running divorce proceeding,” the newspapers said. “Larry did not push for divorce and, in general, did not answer and refused to participate in the divorce proceedings. He gave no indication that he wanted a divorce. ”
According to Blast, Shawn claims that the new will “violates the terms of two different post-nuptial agreements between her and Larry.”
The documents also target Larry’s middle son, Larry King Jr.
The Blast reports that Shawn “accuses Larry of having a” secret account “of giving gifts to people using community property to which he is entitled and claims to have received more than $ 266,000 in receipts from Larry King Jr. between 2013 – 2018. ”
The site says it wants back 50% of everything it gave Larry Jr. owned by the couple’s community.
Larry Jr. also asked to be named executor of the estate, but Shawn’s documents say: “Larry indicated that he did not even know about [Larry Jr.’s] existence ”, until the son reached the age of 30. They add that Larry Jr. “was never involved in Larry’s career or business and it would be extremely inappropriate to place him in a position to represent Larry’s property.”
In the secret will, Larry said he wants his estate to go to his five children, Andy, Chaia, Larry Jr. and Chance and Cannon, his two sons from his marriage to Shawn. Andy and Chaia died tragically in a few weeks in 2020.