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Globe-trotting chef, author and TV host Anthony Bourdain was worth $1.2 million when he died last month and left most of the estate to his 11-year-old daughter, according to court papers filed this week in New York.
Bourdain’s will and related papers show assets including $425,000 in cash and savings, $250,000 in personal property, $500,000 in intangibles like royalties and residuals, and $35,000 in a brokerage account. The documents also list a $1.1 million mortgage.
Bourdain, 61, was found dead June 8 in an apparent suicide in his hotel room in Kaysersberg, France, where he was working on his CNN series “Parts Unknown.”
Judge weighs in on struggle surrounding Marvel’s Stan Lee
The private struggle over the care and legacy of Marvel mastermind Stan Lee played out in Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom as attorneys shoved aside a previous lawyer and reasserted that they represent Lee, 95.
They were granted an elder-abuse restraining order against a former manager of Lee, just as the previous attorney had done.
Lawyer Tom Lallas asked for a 30day extension of the restraining order he had received against Lee’s former manager Keya Morgan. Superior Court Judge Pro Tem Ruth Kleman refused to consider the motion, saying Lallas was not employed by Lee.
Lee’s daughter and only child, J.C. Lee, smiled at her attorneys when the judge refused to recognize Lallas. Attorneys working with her had provided a signed declaration from Stan Lee denouncing Lallas.