A Brooklyn judge has temporarily limited the access of late Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson’s “spendthrift” widow to his estate, after her mother-in-law filed papers asking the jurist to appoint a public administrator to oversee the assets instead.
Clara ThompsonR. Umar AbbasiClara Thompson claims, in yet another set of shocking court documents, that her daughter-in-law Lu-Shawn Thompson, upon realizing her husband was about to die, “hand-picked” estate attorney Lori Ann Douglass in order to cook up a new will that left her more money and control.
“The limited evidence obtained to date reveals that Lu-Shawn was integral in, if not completely responsible for, the preparation and execution of the 2016 Will,” the papers say. “Recognizing the imminence of Kenneth’s demise, her biggest concern was apparently not the welfare of her dying husband, but rather, insuring that she was the recipient of his estate on her own terms.”
As The Post previously reported, Thompson’s 2008 will left no ready cash, only property, to his wife. The 2016 will leaves everything to her, a neglects previous bequests to his mother, siblings, and other relatives.
“Lu-Shawn made it her business in September, 2016, to obtain and destroy the original Will” and have her ill husband “sign the 2016 Will less than two weeks prior to his death,” the court documents allege–adding Lu-Shawn herself brought in Douglass shortly after her husband’s cancer diagnosis. Thompson succumbed to the disease just two weeks after publicly announcing his battle, in Oct. 2016.
The petition goes so far as to say that Lu-Shawn is guilty of “evasive, fraudulent, and arguably criminal conduct,” adding there is no competent evidence that “Kenneth was barely, if at all, a participant in the process.”
“The 2016 Will is 39 pages in length,” the document continues. “Can anyone honestly believe that in his condition, lying in a hospital bed dying and under very strong medication, Kenneth read this instrument, or was capable of understanding its terms?”
Douglass did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
