Gene Hackman and his wife give their kids nothing in their will and everything goes to charity how do you feel about this

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I think this gives us our 2 biggest suspects: his kids, and charity. They both have a clear motive

Their money, their choice. What’s the problem?

Exactly, but it's unusual to leave 80 million to charity and not even give his biological children any of it, since he had so much. The stepmom must've hated the bio kids. If you read the article, it seems like they won't have to deal with the will since Betsy died a week before Gene.

What motive would the kids have if they aren't in the will?

In Louisiana, this would be strictly illegal and thrown out of court. You cannot completely disinherit your children under the Napoleonic code.

Only under the corrupt, obsolete common law system practiced in most states can such an outrage endure.

wow, that's really interesting. thanks.

Not the 1st celebs to nix a dime to offspring. Family obviously means nothing to these kind of people. They desrved to die alone.

Apres moi, le deluge.

Ok. Well Napoleon was a 5 foot Frenchman so not surprising they don't care what the Napoleonic code says. Also what business is it of us where the money goes? We don't know the exact circumstances surrounding their family. Gene and his wife were very reclusive so I doubt we will ever know the full story surrounding their choices.

I would feel like a loser if I didn't leave my kids anything. Sure, give some to charity, but do that before you die if your feeling so benevolent.

Why is it an outrage?

He was an MIA father too like most Hollyweird parents.

No way! Fake news...that can't be true! 😉

His "kids" are in their 60s. By this point in life they should have been financially independent for ~40 years. If they were destitute, I could see it as "cold" to leave them out of the will but honestly not as bad as leaving them destitute while Hackman was alive.

I am in my 60s now and couldn't care less whether my parents, who are both alive, leave me anything in their will. I would much rather they spend it and enjoy life now. If they pass away before it's gone and leave the remainder to charity, that's perfectly ok with me.

Do you know anything about his relationship with the kids? Maybe they were abusive or stole money from him to support a drug habit. Maybe he knew the money would all get squandered on prostitutes and drugs and he thought it was better to send the money where it might help people.

only a backward savage would have to ask this.

The children have the right to enjoy and possess the family fortune after the parent dies, as they do while the parent is alive. For the parent to deprive them after death is as cruel and unnatural as to deprive them while alive. The Napolonic way recognizes that their natural claim to the inheritance overrides the "will" of a dead person.

This also protects the heirs from each other, as they fight to preemptively push each other out of the inheritance by manipulating the elderly parent.

I hope to be as lucky as them, to die together with my one-and-only… and a dog.