On Monday, page six reported that Larry King’s widow, Shawn King, planned to file court documents that would answer his secret will. On Tuesday, his lawyers filed the documents in a Los Angeles court.
Larry, who died last month at the age of 87, had filed for Shawn’s divorce in 2019 and last week a “secret” manuscript appeared that did not mention Shawn and left the $ 2 million property to his children.
But Shawn, 61, claims in the new newspapers that Larry’s ill health left him susceptible to “outside influence” and that he may not even have been aware that he was signing the new will, in addition, he says that when died was not even planning to continue with the divorce.
“Larry was very susceptible to outside influences and at the time he allegedly ran the [new version of his will] he had a questionable mental capacity, having recently suffered a stroke and was about to undergo a medical procedure (and possibly was already under the influence of preoperative medication), ”the papers said, according to the Blast.
She asks that a 2015 will be recognized – which she said on page six that Shawn and Larry were “in a relationship” with the help of a lawyer – was the true will and that she was appointed executor of the estate. document.
He wrote the new version of the will about two months after filing for divorce, but Shawn suggested in court documents that the strange couple was about to reconcile when he died.
“At the time of Larry’s death, there was a divorce process that had been pending for quite some time,” the newspapers say. “Larry did not push for divorce and generally did not respond and refused to participate in the divorce process. He gave no indication that he really wanted to divorce.
According to Blast, Shawn claims the new will “violates the terms of two different post-nuptial agreements between her and Larry.”
The documents also point to Larry’s middle son, Larry King Jr.
The Blast reports that Shawn is “accusing Larry of having a” secret account “that would make gifts to people who used community property to which he is entitled, and that he claims to have received receipts for more than $ 266,000 from Larry King Jr. between 2013-2018 “.
The site says it wants to return 50 percent of everything it gave Larry Jr. of the couple’s community property.
Larry Jr. He has also asked to be named executor of the estate, but Shawn’s statements say, “Larry indicated that he didn’t even know about [Larry Jr.’s] existence ”, until the son was in his thirties. They add that Larry Jr. “He has never been involved in Larry’s career or business and it would be very inappropriate to place him in a position of representation on Larry’s estate.”
In the secret will, Larry said he wanted his property to be for his five children, Andy, Chaia, Larry Jr. and Chance and Cannon, her two children from her marriage to Shawn. Andy and Chaia tragically died within a few weeks of each other in 2020.