EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: Gary Coleman Forced To Pick Between Two Women Now Fighting For His Estate
Posted on Jun 24, 2010 @ 10:45AM
Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman was forced to choose between his ex-girlfriend and Shannon Price, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Randy Kester, the star’s long-time attorney, told RadarOnline.com the actor faced the dilemma after the two women collided.
“Anna’s a lady who worked with Gary for about eight years from about ’97 or 98 to about 2005 or 2006,” he said.
“She actually worked with him as his manager. I think, quite frankly, she became a confidante of Gary’s. He would tell her things that he didn’t share with a lot of other people.
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The couple became more than just friends, but when Coleman met Price things changed drastically.
Said Kester, “My understanding from my discussion with Anna is that she and Gary had a romantic relationship -- that they were very close to one another, close enough that they lived together for those 2 or 3 months until it fell apart.”
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“Shannon came on the picture and that just didn’t mix well and Anna didn’t want any part of it,” he added.
“She indicated to me she felt uncomfortable making Gary uncomfortable because Shannon was making Gary make a choice, make a decision and Anna just respectfully said "I don’t want to do this to you, Gary. I’ll always be your friend, but I’m going to move on.’"
Gray was named executor of a will signed in 2005 ‹ a will that Kester thinks will be determined as Coleman’s valid will.
Price has a handwritten codicil from 2007.
Coleman had told Gray that he put her in his will, but she had never seen it until he died.
“Anna was surprised when she found out that Gary had named her as the executor and as a partial beneficiary in that will,” Kester said.
“When she first found out about it she was emotionally overwhelmed. I think it struck her right in her heart and she had a hard time reacting to it.
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“I really truly believe that the 2005 will that Gary signed appointing Anna as the executor and a partial beneficiary giving his railroads to other people, I think that will is going to prevail.
“I think Shannon is going to have a really hard time of proving her case of common law marriage.”
Although the couple divorced in 2008, Coleman and Price were living together and they were planning to re-marry.
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The Daily Juice
Jun 14, 2010 @ 17:00
Oh yeah, Gray has really been all over the news, all up in the cameras.....NOT! Judging from their actions, Ms. Price seems to have more of an Agenda than Ms. Gray. Ms. Gray isn't working the PR machine, Ms. Price is.
Posted Fri, 06/25/2010 - 7:08am
Anna Gray has been quite a few photos in the media and on the internet. Start googling before you blog.
Further she knows precisely how to spin information after having been Gary's manager. Shannon is clueless.
Posted Fri, 06/25/2010 - 6:47pm
All but 1 photo of Ms. Gray is from 1999 - 2005. Since Gary's death, how photos has she been in? 1. Google that. Also, how many years was Ms. Gray w/ Gary before we started seeing her? Hmmm.
Posted Sat, 06/26/2010 - 7:25am
We'll never know who Gary would have recontacted AFTER he had gotten free of Ms. Price. And police don't serve restraining orders. They only enforce them & not even that sometimes.
Posted Fri, 06/25/2010 - 7:04am
Reread my blog. It says "enforce" not serve."
Posted Fri, 06/25/2010 - 6:50pm
Perhaps you should read more news sources than just ROL. Randy Kester explained that Ms. Price knew they were trying to serve her & she ducked the servers. She wore down Gary's resistance. Typical abusive controlling tactic.
Posted Sat, 06/26/2010 - 8:03am
Gary could have enforced the restraining order by contacting the police. He did not do that. Both Kester and Gray have an agenda played out all over the media. Not the sort of people to trust. Poor Gary rest in peace.
Posted Fri, 06/25/2010 - 3:15am
Mr. Kester would have been named as a person to make a medical decision for Gary had he much confidence in him. Anna could have resumed a relationship of sorts after the divorce but this did not occur.
Posted Fri, 06/25/2010 - 3:13am