Los Angeles, USA
Actress Anne Heche died without a will and her 20-year-old son filed court documents to control your assets.
Homer Laffoon, Heche’s son with ex-husband Coleman Laffoon, filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday asking to be allowed to manage his mother’s estate.
The petition lists Homer Laffoon and Atlas Tupper, aged 13, Heche’s son with her former partner James Tupper, as her only heirs.
The document says that the value of Heche’s inheritance is unknown. That is often the case in such initial filings, before someone has the legal authority to assess the deceased person’s assets.
Homer Laffoon also filed a petition calling for someone to be appointed to represent his brother’s interests in court.
A representative of Heche he declined to comment on the presentation.
On August 5, a car Heche was driving jumped a sidewalk, crashed into a Los Angeles home and caught fire. She was declared brain dead on August 11. and was kept alive on life support for three more days so her organs might be donated.
Heche, 53 years old, he was one of the biggest movie stars of the late 1990s, with actors such as Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford, and had worked steadily in film and television for more than three decades.
She was married to Coleman Laffoon, a television cameraman, from 2001 to 2009, and was in a relationship with James Tupper, an actor, from 2007 to 2018. They had a child with each.