The children of the late singer-songwriter have filed a motion claiming that his signed trust, valued at $48m, was forged
The motion includes an excerpt of a deposition filed by the Cohens’ attorney Adam Streisand in which Kory’s former attorney Reeve Chudd admits to removing a page from Cohen’s signed trust and replacing it with one that indicated Kory is the primary trustee of Cohen’s trust.
“You did not notarize Leonard Cohen’s signatures to this version of the restatement of the Leonard Cohen family trust, right?” Chudd is then asked.Chudd then admits that he physically created the document after Cohen died in 2016 at 82 years old. “I substituted pages in the original document,” he said.
The motion is requesting the court to remove Kory from the trustee role, compel him to turn over Cohen’s estate’s assets, as well as return the money that he earned during his role as trustee, Variety reports. The motion quotes Kory blaming Chudd for the forgery, who he said “modified a document unbeknownst to anybody”. It added that Kory’s claims “strain credulity”, according to Variety.
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