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  • Robin Williams: Widow and Children Reach Settlement Over Disputed Estate

    Robin Williams died a year ago August, and shortly thereafter his widow, Susan Schneider Williams, began a dispute with Robin Williams’ three children–Zachary, Zelda, and Cody Williams–over the actor and comedian’s estate. While his widow still contends some items were removed from the home she and her husband shared without her permission, she is happy with the settlement agreement.

    Under the agreement, Susan Williams will keep Robin Williams’ home, as well as gifts she and her late husband received when they got married in 2011. She will keep a watch he wore frequently, and a bicycle the two purchased on their honeymoon.

    Robin Williams’ children will receive “more than 50 bikes and over 85 watches, as well as thousands of never-disputed items like Robin Williams’ Academy Award statue.”

    Susan Williams issued a statement about the settlement via her attorney on Monday.

    “I feel like Robin’s voice has been heard and I can finally grieve in the home we shared together,” the statement reads. “While it was painful to have truckloads of his belongings removed from our home, it’s the few sentimental items I get to hold onto that mean everything to me. I thank God for this.”

    Representatives for Robin Williams’ children did not respond to a request for comments.

    Robin Williams took his own life at the age of 63. He was known for starring in films including Good Will Hunting, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Good Morning, Vietnam.

    Susan Williams told the media that Robin Williams suffered from severe depression throughout much of his life, and that shortly before his death was diagnosed with the early stages of Parkinson’s disease.

    Do you think Susan Scheider Williams got shafted in the Robin Williams estate settlement?

  • Robin Williams’ Wife, Children Argue Over His Estate

    Robin Williams’ estate is being scuffled over by the late comedian’s wife of less than three years, Susan, and his children, Zachary, Zelda and Cody.

    Robin Williams‘ widow filed papers in a San Francisco court claiming that the children, from Robin’s two previous marriages, took items from her Tiburon home without her permission.

    She is still living in the home, which she shared with Robin Williams until the day he died, and says it and the things in it should be excluded from what Williams outlined that the children should have.

    The items that Robin Williams wanted his children to have, which are outlined in his will, include jewelry, memorabilia and other items.

    Robin Williams’ widow says that because he wanted her to continue to live at the Tiburon home, it makes sense that he intended for his children to have the things that were kept at his Napa Valley home only.

    “Any other interpretation would lead to Mrs. Williams’ home being stripped while Mrs. Williams still lives there,” her attorneys wrote.

    One of her attorneys, James Wagstaffe, said that this filing wasn’t meant to be ugly, but that Robin Williams’ widow is simply trying to more clearly understand the terms of the trust.

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    “This is not ugly,” he said. “I would not say this is anticipated to be a highly contested proceeding.”

    However, the children disagree. They say that Susan Williams is “adding insult to terrible injury” by not letting them have the entirety of what Robin Williams left to them.

    “The Williams’ children are heartbroken that Petitioner, Mr. Williams’ wife of less than three years, has acted against his wishes by challenging the plans he so carefully made for his estate,” attorneys for the children said in court papers.

    What do you think about the scuffle over Robin Williams’ estate?