EXCLUSIVE: Gary Coleman's Ex-Wife Continues Legal Fight With His Family
Posted on Aug 25, 2010 @ 07:45AM - 13 comments
Gary Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price continues her fight against his parents and his former manager Anna Gray who are objecting Price’s claim to a common law marriage with the late Diff'rent Strokes star.
In legal documents obtained by RadarOnline.com, Price’s lawyers say the Colemans and Gray have no basis for their filings and ask for the court to throw them out.
EXCLUSIVE: Gary Coleman's Parents Fight His Ex's Claims To His Estate
Posted on Aug 05, 2010 @ 07:10AM - 7 comments
The battle over Gary Coleman’s estate continues and his parents are taking the next step to ensure that their son’s assets and interests are kept out of the hands of his ex-wife Shannon Price. In exclusive documents obtained by RadarOnline.com, Willie and Edmonia Coleman are asking that the court dismiss Shannon’s request to recognize her union to Gary as a common law marriage.
EXCLUSIVE: Gary Coleman International Memorial Being Planned
Posted on Jun 17, 2010 @ 11:43AM - 3 comments
Despite all the controversy surrounding his death, Gary Coleman will finally get a tribute of his life. RadarOnline.com has learned that an international memorial is being planned for the Diff’rent Stokes star.
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“I’m planning a proper memorial for the industry to say goodbye to one of the greatest child actors ever,” his former agent Victor Perillo tells RadarOnline.com exclusively. “I’m planning it with NBC and Norman Lear and it will be something for everyone.
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“Gary Coleman was an international star and he should be celebrated as such both in life and death.”
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Plans to cremate the actor are underway and Perillo says it may have in fact already happened. “From what I understand the cremation was supposed to happen sometime last night after Anna Gray viewed the body,” he said.
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Coleman’s body has been awaiting cremation at the Lake Hills Memorial Mortuary & Cemetery in Sandy, Utah.
EXCLUSIVE: Gary Coleman's Ex-Wife's Dad: 'My Daughter Is Suffering'
Posted on Jun 10, 2010 @ 07:15AM - 18 comments
In his first interview since the death of his ex son-in-law Gary Coleman, Dale Price is speaking out exclusively to RadarOnline.com about how his family has been coping with the loss and the media attention that has swarmed around them.
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“It’s been difficult. I don’t think there’s words that really describe how painful this whole experience has been. A lot of it has been seeing what [Shannon] has had to go through,” Dale told RadarOnline.com. “We considered Gary to be a big part of our family. He was a huge part of our family and so when we lost him it was like we lost our family member. To see Shannon what she’s had to go through. She’s been suffering with some ill health as well, and this hit her very hard.”
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: Todd Bridges On Gary Coleman Deathbed Photos: 'How Could Ex-Wife Be So Selfish?'
Posted on Jun 08, 2010 @ 01:35PM - 17 comments
Gary Coleman’s Diff’rent Strokes co-star Todd Bridges has slammed the star’s ex-wife after it emerged that she snapped photos of the star on his deathbed.
“How could you be so selfish?” Bridges asked Shannon Price in an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com.
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The 45-year-old, who played older brother Willis to Coleman's Arnold on the hit television series, told RadarOnline.com’s Alexis Tereszcuk that he was questioning the motivations of his friend’s on-again, off-again partner Price, 24, to cash in on the late actor.
“I would never be that mad at somebody to ever do something so dreadful and horrible to them,” Bridges said.
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“Are you angry at him?
“Are you that mad at him that you would do this to him?”
The diminutive former child star died at the age of 42 late last month after suffering a brain hemorrhage following a fall at his Santaquin, Utah, home.
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Price and her family were at Utah Valley Regional Medical Centre where Coleman was on life support, near the time of his death. Medical staff has confirmed they were taking pictures.
Price’s representative has insisted Price is not receiving any compensation for the pictures.
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However, Bridges said he did not buy Price’s explanation that she took the photos, but never intended to release them.
“It sounds a little hokey to me,” he said. “That’s insane, I couldn’t even imagine doing that. Poor Gary has no idea what’s going on in his life, he has no idea that this is happening to him because he’s not here to fight back.
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“You shouldn’t have taken them in the very beginning anyway.”
On and off screen, Bridges and Coleman were inseparable during their Diff'rent Strokes heyday in the late '70s and early '80s and remained close until his death.
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Coleman’s former agent Victor Perillo also spoke out about the photos in a statement released on Tuesday, calling them “despicable”: "While Gary Coleman's family continues to privately grieve the passing of their son, they would like to thank all of his fans for their generous support. This kind gentle soul left the world with many beautiful memories to cherish. That is why I am personally appalled to hear the news that individuals are selling photos of Gary in the hospital. This is unconscionable and despicable. I would like to praise all the reputable news organizations that declined the offers.
"I hope others will do the same out of respect and human decency."
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gary Coleman Death Should Be Investigated, Says Ex-Agent
Posted on Jun 04, 2010 @ 03:25PM - 17 comments
In the most dramatic turn yet, Gary Coleman’s former agent -- and spokesperson for his parents Willie and Sue Coleman -- is suggesting foul play could have been involved in the mysterious death of the Diff’rent Strokes star.
“If I had my way and I had the dollars, I’d hire someone to take another look at the body to see if there was any blunt force trauma to the head,” Victor Perillo told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview.
“How did he hit his head? Why was there so much blood?”
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Coleman’s ex-wife, Shannon Price, has denied pushing him down the stairs.
“People are so cruel, they don’t even know,” she said in an interview, recorded the day after Coleman’s death and released Thursday.
“I was upstairs, he was downstairs, how am I going to push him?”
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Perillo said he believed Price made that statement, even though no-one had publically accused her of pushing her ex-husband, because she was advised “people are going to think that she killed him”.
He also revealed the 24-year-old won’t even take the Sue of Willie Coleman’s repeated telephone calls.
“They’ve put calls in to Shannon and she won’t talk to them,” Perillo said.
“She has her brother call them and he’s clueless (about the situation).”
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In the bizarre interview, Price also defended her decision to switch off Coleman’s life support, saying she didn't want Coleman to end up “like Muhammad Ali or Terri Schiavo”.
Perillo told RadarOnline.com her decision to end the actor’s life support was selfish.
“It’s disgusting,” he said.
“I think they didn’t give fate or a miracle a chance to happen. To give it just one hour? If he had been in LA I think he would still be alive today.”
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The former Diff’rent Strokes child TV star died from a brain hemorrhage Friday at the age of 42. He suffered a head injury, triggering an intracranial brain hemorrhage, after falling at his home in Santaquin, Utah.
Price was widely thought to be Coleman's wife when she made the decision to pull the plug on life support, however, it later emerged the pair had secretly divorced in 2008.
Perillo helped launch Gary Coleman's career from Chicago around 1977 and worked with him for 15 years.
He is now representing the estranged parents of the former child TV star, who as RadarOnline.com was first to reveal, are seeking custody of his body and want it returned to the star's boyhood home in Illinois.
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However, Perillo said a reported feud between Sue and Willie Coleman and Price over the star’s body, will and assets is bogus.
“The Coleman’s just want to know what happened to their son,” Perillo added.
“They have not disputed the funeral at all... they just want to bury their son and move on.
“Additionally, the Coleman’s will honor whatever Gary’s will says.
“They just want the chance to talk to Shannon since she was at the hospital with Gary in his final moments.”
EXCLUSIVE: Gary Coleman's Parents Withdraw Court Battle Over Body
Posted on Jun 04, 2010 @ 12:02PM - 7 comments
Gary Coleman’s parents, Sue and Willie Coleman, have withdrawn their court bid over their son’s body.
In a statement just released to RadarOnline.com, their attorney Frederick A. Jackman said the Colemans no longer see a need to proceed with a Formal Probate of their son’s estate.
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“From the start, Mr. and Mrs. Coleman’s intention has been to see that Gary’s wishes be honored and that his affairs be taken care of properly,” Jackman told RadarOnline.com.
“They wanted to do things the right way, and they urge those still involved to do the same. The Colemans ask that everyone please treat Gary with respect and kindness.
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“They feel it is time for him to find peace and let his spirit go.”
Jackman said copies of will and trust documents have been provided by Salt Lake attorney Kent Alderman.
It is unknown what effect this will have on Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price’s plan for a funeral this weekend.
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