Posted on 03/14/2025 9:29:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
I made provision for my wife unlikely before me. In blended families that is important.
She was his full-time caregiver. By all accounts, she took very good care of him as his health declined.
“I guess given the age difference, neither Hackman nor his wife thought he would go before she did.”
I guess given the age difference, neither Hackman nor his wife thought she would go before she did?
Doesn’t look like the children cared.
Hackman dumped their mother and his three children when they were very young to marry a woman less than half his age, and he never had anything to do with them after the divorce.
I wish the children all the luck in the world in getting their inheritance.
According to Brave AI:
Gene Hackman’s net worth was estimated at $80 million at the time of his death.
Thanks. I reversed it in the post.
One of his nephews said that everyone in the family, including Gene and Betsy, assumed that because she was 30 years younger than him he would go first.
She was apparently in very good health until she got the hanta virus.
And......
He ironically made a film called ‘I Never Sang for my Father’ which was excellent and dealt with strained Father-Son relationships.
“$80 million”
Let the games begin!
Well, now we know why the kids didn’t check on dear old dad.
or Now we know why the kids made sure Awakawa died first.
I am all over my elderly father. He calls or texts me every single morning when he opens his eyes so I can be sure he hasn’t had a heart attack or is helpless on the floor. I am involved in everything he does but at a distance so he is independent. We speak no less than 10 times a day about even the most simple things when I can’t be with him.
That was surprisingly low, to me.
I would have figured hundreds of millions.
But his pay for some really big movies was only like $2 million per............
In Poland, if you are married and die without a will with no children, your spouse gets the house but only 1/2 of the rest of your estate. The rest goes to your family: parents, then siblings, their children, etc.. It's probably a legacy of peasants trying to keep family farms big enough to be viable.
Poster corrected it in post 15
oops, post 18
“She was his full-time caregiver. By all accounts, she took very good care of him as his health declined”
I am not in their shoes but if I had $83 million I would hire some help to ease the load on my wife.
Did the two dogs that were loose gnaw on them?
Not a square corner in the place...
His children were all young adults in their 20’s when their parents divorced. It’s also true that their new stepmother was the same age they were.
didn’t his first wife get half of his wealth decades ago when they divorced? I assume they were living in California way back then.
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