On Monday, Page Six reported that Larry King’s widow, Shawn King, was planning to file court documents challenging his secret will. On Tuesday, her attorneys filed the documents with a court in LA.
Larry, who died last month at the age of 87, had filed for divorce from Shawn in 2019, and last week a ‘secret’ handwritten surfaced – in which Shawn was not mentioned, leaving his $ 2 million estate to his children.
But Shawn, 61, claims in the new papers that Larry’s ill health makes him susceptible to “ outside influence ” and that he may not even have known he signed the New Testament – and she says he wasn’t when he died. I don’t even intend to go through with the divorce.
Larry was very sensitive to outside influences and at the time he reportedly conducted the [new version of his will] had questionable mental capacity, had recently had a stroke and was about to undergo medical intervention (and possibly already under the influence of pre-operative medication), ”the newspapers read, de Blast said.
She asks that a 2015 will – which she said Page Six was made by Shawn and Larry “as a couple” with the help of a lawyer – be recognized as a will and be named the 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 papers that the estranged couple were about to reconcile when he died.
“At the time of Larry’s death, there was a divorce proceeding that had been pending for quite some time,” the papers said. Larry did not insist on the divorce and generally did not respond and refused to participate in the divorce proceedings. He gave no indication that he really wanted to pursue a divorce. “
According to the Blast, Shawn claims the New Testament “violates the terms of two different post-marital agreements between her and Larry.”
The documents also focus on Larry’s middle son, Larry King Jr.
The Blast reports that Shawn “accuses Larry of having a ‘secret account’ that he would make gifts to individuals using community property to which she is entitled, and that she claims to send receipts of over $ 266,000 to Larry King Jr. between 2013. have sent. -2018. “
The site says they get 50 percent of everything he gives to Larry Jr. has given back will of the couple’s community property.
Larry Jr. has also asked to be named the executor of the estate, but Shawn’s filings say, “Larry indicated he didn’t even know about [Larry Jr.’s] exist, ”until the son was in his thirties. They add that Larry Jr. “has never been involved in Larry’s career or business, and it would be highly inappropriate to put him in a position to represent Larry’s legacy.”
In the secret will, Larry said he wanted his estate to go to his five children, Andy, Chaia, Larry Jr. and Chance and Cannon, are two sons from his marriage to Shawn. Andy and Chaia tragically died within weeks of each other in 2020.