The oldest son of Anne Heche has reportedly revealed what he believes is the value of the late actress’ estate.
Homer Laffoon, Heche’s son, claims that his mother allegedly died with approximately $400,000 to her name, according to documents obtained by the Daily Mail on Tuesday.
Laffoon reportedly said in his filing that his “best estimate on the value of all [Heche’s] personal property is $400,000.”
He also reportedly expects that the same amount will be earned annually from royalties and residuals, claiming that “the probable value of the annual income from all the estate’s property is approximately $400,000.”
Additionally, Laffoon, 20, reportedly revealed that his mother lived in an apartment and did not own a home, alleging in the paperwork that she “did not have any interest in real property at the time of her death.”
Laffoon also provided the court with a list of what the actress owned at the time of her death. This included a few modest bank accounts, royalty payments and other income, an LLC membership interest related to her podcast, and his mother’s interest in future profits from her memoir, “Call Me Anne,” which was set to be published next year.
Laffoon, who is the child of Heche and her ex-husband, Coleman Laffoon, has also been battling Heche’s ex-boyfriend, James Tupper, for control of the actress’ estate since her death on Aug. 12 at the age of 53.
After it was revealed that Heche died without a will, Laffoon first filed a petition to be named executor of the estate, claiming that he is “the person with the highest priority of appointment” and is “legally entitled to appointment as administrator.”
He requested that he and his younger half-brother, Heche and Tupper’s 13-year-old son, Atlas, be listed as their mother’s sole heirs and asked the court to appoint him as the teenager’s guardian.
James, 57, has opposed those requests, and claims that Heche sent him an email in January 2011 that read, “My wishes are that all of my assets go to the control of Mr. James Tupper to be used to raise my children and then given to the children.”
Additionally, he requested to be named his son’s guardian, arguing that he is Atlas’ “father and only living parent.” He insisted that he “loves both Homer and Atlas as a father and wants the best for them both.”
However, Tupper has been denied his bid to be appointed legal guardian of their 13-year-old son and is now also likely to lose the battle over the late actress’s estate, after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lee Bogdanoff rejected Tupper’s petition to be made ‘guardian ad litem’ of Heche’s younger son Atlas, who was in court with his dad for Tuesday’s hearing. The judge also said he would ‘probably’ grant Heche’s older son Homer’s motion to be made executor of his mother’s estate.
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