Though Leonard Cohen took steps before his death in 2016 to ensure the bulk of his multimillion-dollar estate was passed on to his heirs, the Montreal poet and singer’s sons have been struggling for months to gain full control of his assets. revealed the New York Post Monday.
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According to court documents seen by the New York newspaper, Cohen’s two children – his daughter, Lorca Cohen, 48, and his son, Adam Cohen, 50 – have indeed been fighting a battle for more than a year in Superior Court. of Los Angeles. Angeles to remove attorney Robert Kory, who had been appointed by his father, prior to his death, as manager of the Leonard Cohen Family Trust.
This trust manages the tens of millions of dollars in royalties from Cohen’s music but also from his poems, novels, photographs and even excerpts from his journal dating back to his teenage years. The entire estate of the singer ofHallelujah it would total $48 million (or $65 million Canadian), according to court documents.
Cohen’s children say their father admitted, in the days before his death, “that he made a grave mistake in allowing Kory to insinuate himself into his affairs and take control of virtually every aspect of his affairs. His finances and his inheritance”, according to the judicial documents.
Additionally, Lorca and Adam say they weren’t kept informed by Kory about some of his recent moves to monetize the Cohen estate, such as posthumously publishing the novel. A ballet of lepers and the launch of the new exhibition Everyone knows – a crack in everything at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto.
Recall that Leonard Cohen died on November 7, 2016, at the age of 82, after falling in the middle of the night at his home in Los Angeles. “The death was sudden, unexpected and peaceful,” Kory said at the time of death.
