The household dispute over the property of the late actor John Amos has now erupted right into a full authorized battle.
Shannon Amos and Kelly Christopher (Ok.C.) Amos, the youngsters of the enduring “Good Occasions” actor, are going face to face in courtroom after Shannon accused her brother of every thing from elder abuse to fraud.
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Shannon has filed a petition accusing her brother of “manipulating their father into signing numerous authorized paperwork — together with new wills, trusts and powers of lawyer,” which gave him “near-complete management” over their father’s property. The outlet additionally reported that Shannon named Amos’ former caretaker Belinda Foster, shut affiliate Eugene Brummett, and his manufacturing firm Step and One Half Productions within the petition, claiming they have been conscious of Ok.C.’s alleged wrongdoing. These included ignoring their father’s medical wants and misusing his funds.Shannon’s petition seeks a courtroom order to freeze the property’s belongings.
On Saturday, August 23, she made an Instagram publish detailing the submitting.
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Amos died on Aug. 21, 2024, of congestive coronary heart failure on the age of 84. His passing was not publicly introduced till October, which led to hypothesis and confusion on-line. Shortly after information of his demise grew to become public, Shannon made headlines, stating that she had been saved at nighttime about her father’s declining well being and cremation, which had occurred six weeks earlier.
In a since-deleted Instagram publish and video, she expressed her “shock” and “devastation” over his passing, claiming she had realized about it by media stories.
The lately filed lawsuit is the most recent growth in a long-standing household battle. In 2016, the “Coming to America” actor was recognized with Lewy physique dementia, marking the start of disputes relating to his care and remedy.
Shannon has maintained that her brother deliberately saved their father remoted and incessantly moved him to forestall contact with household and mates. The lawsuit additionally accuses Ok.C. of intently monitoring any communication Amos had with others, alleging that in 2019 he started “impersonating him in textual content messages and emails.”
“This calculated and merciless isolation was explicitly designed to render John Amos solely depending on Ok.C. Amos for all of his private, monetary, and significant medical selections.”
The submitting goes on to explain cases during which Amos was dwelling in “unsafe and unsanitary circumstances.” Leslie Franklin, a longtime good friend, submitted an announcement claiming the actor “was saved in inns surrounded by quite a few baggage of dirty grownup diapers and trash.”
The petition additionally references a 2023 incident when Amos was hospitalized as a consequence of an an infection in his toes attributable to maggots. This, together with a number of different hospitalizations that yr, triggered a name to Grownup Protecting Providers.
Along with the allegations of elder abuse, the petition accuses Ok.C. of profiting from their father’s deteriorating psychological state. Shannon claims her brother “tricked” Amos into signing new wills and trusts that primarily benefited him. These embody paperwork filed in 2020 that granted Ok.C. sole possession of Step and One Half Productions, successfully giving him full management over any residual earnings generated by the corporate. The petition clarifies that on the time neither sibling was receiving cash from the property.
Finally, Shannon holds Ok.C. accountable for their father’s demise. She alleges that in August 2024, Amos was affected by “extreme stomach ache,” however was taken to the hospital “too late” to obtain satisfactory remedy.
She additional claims that Foster falsely recognized herself to medical doctors because the actor’s daughter.
“What Ok.C. Amos, Belinda Foster, and Eugene Brummett did within the final years of my father’s life is unfathomable, merciless, and past my comprehension,” she stated.
Ok.C. has not publicly responded to the most recent submitting. Nevertheless, he has beforehand denied his sister’s accusations, asserting that their father retained psychological competence and made his personal selections.
