Robbie Robertson’s demise has ventured into territory that sadly occurs far an excessive amount of.
Robbie Robertson’s demise in 2023 remains to be having ramifications for The Band musician’s kids as they’re nonetheless locked in authorized wranglings with Robertson’s widow. In response to the LA Instances, Robertson and Janet Zuccarini had been married solely months earlier than he died.
His three grownup kids, Alexandra, Delphine and Sebastian Robertson, really feel that the restaurateur took benefit of the songwriter’s declining well being and had him signal paperwork that will profit her after he died.
The lawsuit’s essential focus is the previous house of David Geffen in Beverly Hills. The couple bought the house for $6 million, splitting the house 50/50 regardless of Robertson placing a down cost of $1.8 million on his personal. His reported intent was for his kids to personal his home, with the choice to promote to Zuccarini, purchase her share, or collectively promote it. The swimsuit alleges this did not occur.
In response to the LA Instances, Zuccarini informed the opposite family members that “she was entitled to reside within the Property till her demise – and that [Robertson’s heirs] had been required to pay, from what would have been their modest inheritance, the mortgage, property taxes, insurance coverage, and half of the every day property upkeep bills at some point of her life.”
The declare comes from an modification made to their “Tenant in Frequent” settlement from once they moved into the house. The modification was signed in March 2023, solely 5 months earlier than Robertson would cross away.
His heirs are arguing that Robertson’s 2022 surgical procedure for most cancers left the musician impaired, claiming he used “highly effective opioids, THC and antipsychotics to handle his ache and stimulate his urge for food,” in keeping with the lawsuit (Through the LA Instances). “These medicine he was taking, within the time period when Zuccarini was arranging the key marriage ceremony and having him signal oppressive paperwork, are identified to have important results on cognition, together with confusion, hallucinations, torpor, despair, reminiscence loss, and dissociation.”
Zuccarini’s lawyer referred to as the lawsuit, “meritless fiction” and did not mince phrases about the place the intent lies. “It is a gross and exploitative try by Robbie Robertson’s kids to eviscerate their father’s expressed needs for his beloved spouse Janet,” Gabrielle A. Vidal mentioned in an announcement.