EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gary Coleman Death Should Be Investigated, Says Ex-Agent
Posted on Jun 04, 2010 @ 03:25PM
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).”
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.”
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Jun 05, 2010 @ 20:04
she pushed him down the stairs or ove the railing then refused to help him when 911 asked her to help him the 911 tape says it all she was so un emotional on the tape she killed him and pulled the plug to cover it up
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 9:02pm
That tape made me sad..What an ugly, selfish b@!%..No wonder he divorced her.
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 2:02pm
There was apparently violence going with both of them. We'll never know what really happened to Gary.
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:54am
This death was a killing. Shannon struck him from behind with something heavy - so hard she knocked him off his feet and then went back upstairs to wait a bit so that she was sure he'd die. She's immature and low IQ and will be found out.
Posted Fri, 06/04/2010 - 11:37pm
THIS WOMEN LOOKS LIKE A NUT JOB.
Posted Fri, 06/04/2010 - 11:03pm
I have seen not ONE tear from this stupid B*tch Ex wife Shannon. Todd Bridges shed tears, but all this woman could do was talk about Gary's money that she spent. She is DISGUSTING and should be investigated.
Posted Fri, 06/04/2010 - 8:58pm
What a jerk off for even suggesting she should be investigated. Is every death a murder? The woman is grieving, and people deal with death of loved ones differently. Not everyone has a textbook pattern. Perillo sounds like a complete idiot.
Posted Fri, 06/04/2010 - 7:56pm
It's a known fact that she was physically abusive toward him. They were violent with each other..it wasn't one way. What makes you think she couldn't have shoved him and he fell.
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:20am
Gary was arrested for domestic violence in January of this year. They had a very rocky relationship.
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:52am
It's clear you are Shannon. What are you hiding? We all know what you've done and in the end, you will be exposed for what you are. God will also deal with you someday. I look forward to all of it.
Posted Fri, 06/04/2010 - 11:35pm