A authorized battle is brewing over who ought to have management over American actress Anne Heche’s property a month after her dying.
Heche, 53, has a 20-year-old son Homer Laffoon with former cameraman Coleman Laffoon, with whom she was married to between 2001 and 2009.
She has a 13-year-old son Atlas Tupper with actor James Tupper, with whom she dated for over a decade earlier than they cut up in 2018.
In keeping with the American media, Homer filed a court docket petition within the Los Angeles Superior Court docket on Aug 31 asking to be named the executor of her property as he claimed she didn’t depart behind a will. The petition listed each Homer and Atlas because the heirs to the property.
Nevertheless, Tupper, 57, objected to this growth and filed court docket paperwork final Thursday (Sept 15).
The actor, who met Heche on the set of tv collection Males In Timber (2006 to 2008), claimed that she named him as executor of her property in a will emailed to him and two different individuals in 2011.
“My needs are that each one of my belongings go to the management of Mr James Tupper for use to lift my kids after which given to the kids,” in response to the need allegedly emailed by Heche and quoted in a number of American media retailers.
“They are going to be divided equally amongst our kids, presently Homer Heche Laffoon and Atlas Heche-Tupper, and their portion given to every when they’re the age of 25. When the final baby turns 25 any home or different properties owned could also be bought and the cash divided equally amongst our kids.”
Tupper claimed additional within the paperwork that Homer just isn’t appropriate to be the executor of the property as Homer is just 20 years previous, unemployed and estranged from Heche.
Tupper additional accused Homer of adjusting the locks of the house of Heche and Atlas on the day of her dying and barring Atlas from entry since then.
Tupper was additionally involved concerning the claims that Heche’s house was “vacant”.
“Her house was filled with her furnishings, jewelry, valuables, information and information, and their removing was by no means authorised by this Court docket or the regulation,” in response to the paperwork filed by Tupper.
Heche was taken off life help in August after she was declared legally lifeless from mind accidents suffered in a automobile crash in Los Angeles on Aug 5.
She starred in numerous motion pictures from the late Nineteen Nineties, together with Donnie Brasco (1997), Six Days, Seven Nights (1998) and Psycho (1998).
She was in a high-profile relationship with talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres between 1997 and 2000. – The Straits Instances/Asia Information Community