Battle Over Larry King's $144 Million Estate Settled, Wife Shawn & Late TV Show Host's Son Work Out Deal
June 7 2021, Published 12:06 p.m. ET
The bare-knuckle brawl over the $144 million estate of TV-talk show legend Larry King has been settled and only Breaking Celebrity News has the exclusive details of the secret pact.
The courtroom showdown pitted Larry King Jr., against broadcasting pioneer’s estranged wife Shawn Southwick King – who charged a secret 2019 handwritten will splitting the estate equally among his five children was invalid.
The widow alleged someone may have influenced Larry to write it and asked the court to recognize an existing 2015 will she described as a “watertight family estate plan” that names HER as the executor of the estate.
Breaking Celebrity News has learned the case was quietly settled to avoid an embarrassing and time-consuming legal battle.
“The case has been resolved through a confidential settlement. Enough said,” King Jr’s lawyer Bruce S. Ross exclusively told Breaking Celebrity News.
The legal drama exploded in January shortly after the suspender-wearing TV talker died from sepsis at age 87 and King Jr. entered the one-page 2019 holographic will into Los Angeles Superior Court seeking to take charge of the estate.
The settlement comes as Texas-based forensic-based handwriting expert Peggy Walla exclusively told Breaking Celebrity News the one-page will wouldn’t have stood a chance in court.
Walla determined the document was penned by Larry, but questioned his mental capacity based on his gnarly handwriting and shockingly concluded someone else’s handwriting dated the document filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in February.
“There was something wonky about his handwriting,” Walla, of LPR Investigations, told Breaking Celebrity News.