Even though Leonard Cohen had taken steps before his death in 2016 to ensure that the bulk of his multimillion-dollar estate would be handed over to his heirs, the children of the Montreal poet and singer have been fighting for months. , to gain full control of its assets, revealed the New York Post Monday.
According to court documents seen by the New York newspaper, Cohen’s two children – his daughter, Lorca Cohen, 48, and his son, Adam Cohen, 50 – have indeed been fighting a battle for more than a year. before the Superior Court of Los Angeles to remove the lawyer Robert Kory, who had been appointed by their father, before his death, as manager of the Leonard Cohen Family Trust.
This trust manages the tens of millions of dollars in royalties from Cohen’s music but also from his poetry, his novels, his photographs and even excerpts from his diary dating from his adolescence. The entire heritage of the singer ofHallelujah would amount to $48 million, according to court documents.
Cohen’s children claim that their father admitted, in the days before his death, “that he had made a grave error in allowing Kory to insinuate himself into his affairs and take control of virtually every aspect of his business. finances and his legacy,” according to court documents.
Additionally, Lorca and Adam claim that they were not kept informed by Kory of some of his recent moves to monetize Cohen’s estate, such as the posthumous publication of the novel. A Ballet of Lepers and the launch of the new exhibition Everybody Knows: A Crack in Everything at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto.
Recall that Leonard Cohen died on November 7, 2016, at the age of 82, following falling in the middle of the night at his home in Los Angeles. “The death was sudden, unexpected and peaceful,” Kory said at the time of death.