Posted on 09/22/2017 1:09:35 PM PDT by EveningStar
Jerry Lewis certainly got in the last laugh when it came to his strained relationship with his children.
According to his Last Will and Testament, provided to PEOPLE by The Blast, the funnyman emphatically cut out all six children he had with his first wife Patti Palmer — meaning they will [inherit] nothing.
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
“Not a last laugh, but a last insult. It’s something that decent people just don’t do. I’ve lost some respect for Lewis because of this.”
I read she asked for 450,000 per year support for her and her youngest son. Don't know if she got it. Other kids were all grown by 1980.
Where did he live? California? Nevada?
I did not think that you could disinherit your kids in most states. I knew a guy who was a total a-hole who moved to Florida specifically because the laws there WOULD allow him to disinherit his son.
Have you not been paying attention? The guy was a total jerk who abandoned his first wife and 7 kids. But you think none of that matters because he was “funny”?
At any rate, the stakes are high. The first-family siblings will have experienced and eager lawyers who will bore in...and I prophecy an eventual settlement by the second-family defendant(s) who will pay off to get out of a long legal ordeal plus the scandals and nastiness that are sure to come out of the woodwork.
Leni
I guess it might be good to know the other side of the story whatever that is. It’s so easy to judge others. It is a sad thing to see this but unless we were there behind closed doors, maybe we should try to refrain from the condemnation.
> None of us know the circumstances - it may have been fully justified. <
I thought about that. But what are the chances that all six of those children turned out to be terrible people? All six? I think it’s way more likely that Lewis had a grudge against the wife, and the six children were just collateral damage.
A decent person simply does not view his own children as collateral damage.
I have his lead guitarist’s Fender amp.
As I understand it, in most jurisdictions, it’s perfectly lawful to disinherit a child. However, if the decedent disinherits his wife, partially or completely, she can usually elect to take against the will and claim her intestate share.
Please read my posts more thoroughly. I think you have me mixed up with someone else. I did not say I liked him except as a little kid.
What did you think I said? Which post?
Watch “Artists and Models” on youtube. Very funny!
Michael and Maureen turned out fine. It was Nancy’s two that were ...different
I heard a lawyer on the radio saying it’s better to leave them a dollar, rather than ignore or cut them. Supposed to be harder to contest.
Ah, I see. You didn’t read my entire post or understand the context.
I was replying to another Freeper who was talking about the relationship between Dean and Lewis, and I said I saw a video that was a half hour long thing about 1976 when the “reunion” occurred. The Dean and Lewis reunion was about five seconds out of that and showed them embracing on the stage.
I was talking about the look-back videos of years in the Seventies that were entertaining, not Jerry Lewis.
Sorry I must have misread your post. I just feel that someone who dies with considerable wealth is wrong to exclude his own progeny.
No problem, I saw how you misinterpreted. You did come at me with guns-a-blazing, though...:)
On the other hand, I don’t get it when parents leave fortunes to children who despise their parents’ values and spend that very money giving it causes contrary to the parents’ wishes. My in-laws had to do that very thing and it gave them peace of mind that my sister-in-law couldn’t send money to liberal organizations that were courting her for their money. No point in double-couponing for decades to leave something to ingrate kids.
It’s my understanding, and I could be wrong, that one cannot disinherit minor children but can adult children.
But, as the other poster said, they were popular in their day. We can’t go back and write him out of that popularity and say he wasn’t popular, any more than we can do that with OJ Simpson or Bill Cosby.
I imagine Jerry Lewis was right for that time, much to the annoyance of many women who disliked his lowbrow humor and had to watch their men and kids laughing at it...:)
If she can prove he was her father, doesn’t she have a claim on his estate? Isn’t that what happened to Hank Williams estate and Hank Williams, Jr. had to pay her?
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