mmhmm...maybe. They should have been paying medical expenses and caring for the family, as the ill actor may not have had much coming in, in the way of royalties, etc.
Look, I don’t want to be overly suspicious but when it comes to money, any facts & stories are, almost by default, suspect. My family and probably yours, too, has unsavory histories of family members who...to put it mildly, acted ugly b/c they wanted the money.