Late Hollywood legend Marlon Brando left an estate valued at $21.6 million - according to court paper filed on Friday. The On The Waterfront actor died of lung failure on July 1 at the age of 80. The financial figures were listed in the petition for probate - the process of a court distributing assets of a deceased person - in Los Angeles Superior Court, which leaves his estate to a living trust. The Oscar-winner's will lists 10 surviving children, aged between 46 and 10 - including Petra Brando-Corval, his adopted daughter, whose mother was his former assistant Caroline Barrett. The will says Brando-Corval or his grandson Tuki Brando will not be provided for. Brando's estate will provide monthly payments to two friend's of the actor's - Alice Marchak and Blanche Hall. The will has named Brando's former maid Maria Christina Ruiz - the mother of his three youngest children, as their guardian. The probate petition lists private property worth $3 million and real estate valued at $18.6 million, which includes his Mulholland Drive home and a Tahitian atoll he purchased in 1966 for $200,000.
- 7/12/2004
- WENN
A woman who worked as a personal assistant for Marlon Brando for 25 years sued the actor in a Los Angeles court on Thursday, claiming he was trying to force her to repay $185,000 that he gave her as a gift to buy a home in London. Caroline Barrett began working for Brando in 1976 and retired in 2001. The screen legend adopted Barrett's daughter, Petra, in 1981 although it was unclear whether the couple had a personal relationship. The lawsuit states that Brando gave Barrett the money to buy a house in London after he moved there in 1985, so she could look after his affairs and "Petra could have roots," according to the lawsuit. Although Brando told Barrett that he would have to classify the transfer of money as a loan to avoid "dire tax consequences," he repeatedly assured her that she did not have to pay the money back, says the suit. She also agreed to sign a promissory note and to use her Los Angeles home as collateral to further the appearance of a loan, says the suit. Barrett sold the London house in 1990 after Brando's business there concluded, and all three moved back to America so that Petra could attend college, according to the suit. In the suit, she claims that Brando told her he had instructed his attorneys to cancel the promissory note against her home. She retired in 2001 and refused several entreaties to return to work, the suit states. In September, she received a letter from Brando's attorneys saying that she was in default of the loan and that he intended to foreclose on her Los Angeles home unless she paid the full amount plus interest, says the suit. Barrett contends that the letter contained Brando's first mention that the 1985 transaction was a loan, and she asks the court to prevent the actor from taking her home or collecting on the loan, as well as attorneys' fees.
- 2/11/2003
- WENN
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