Youngsters of the Band’s late Robbie Robertson, a extended-time collaborator with Martin Scorcese and Bob Dylan, are proclaiming elder abuse in a new legal action against his widow.

Robertson died final calendar year, just months following a private marriage to Janet Zuccarini. His 3 grownup small ones — Alexandra, Delphine and Sebastian Robertson — submitted match against the Toronto restaurateur in Los Angeles Superior Court.

“This lawsuit is a meritless fiction and the truth of the matter will prevail,” claimed Zuccarini lawyer Gabrielle Vidal, explained to the Los Angeles Times. “This is a gross and exploitative endeavor by Robbie Robertson’s small children to eviscerate their father’s expressed needs for his beloved spouse Janet.”

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The youthful Robertsons say his intent upon dying was for his small ones to turn into 50 per cent home owners of a Beverly Hills home that Zuccarini and Robertson jointly bought from David Geffen for $6 million in 2021. (The match alleges that Robertson place down the total $1.8-million down payment.) His heirs would then be definitely totally free to market place the home to Zuccarini, obtain out her share or jointly market.

Rather, Zuccarini has educated the spouse and young children that “she was entitled to reside in the home till her dying — and that [Robertson’s heirs] had been essential to pay, from what would have been their modest inheritance, the property finance loan, house taxes, insurance, and half of the every day house upkeep bills for the length of her lifestyle,” according to the lawsuit.

His heirs say the elder abuse stems from Zuccarini’s insistence that Robertson signal documents when he was not capable of understanding them. The lawsuit argues that he never ever ever totally recovered quickly immediately after a 2022 cancer-related surgery, and was functioning with impressive opioids, THC and antipsychotics to handle the ache.

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“Robertson’s psychological condition was seriously impaired,” the Robertson children’s lawyer suggests. “These medicines he was getting, in the period of time when Zuccarini was arranging the key wedding ceremony and getting him sign oppressive paperwork, are known to have important consequences on cognition – together with confusion, hallucinations, torpor, melancholy, memory reduction, and dissociation.”

Assets possession was modified when the couple amended a Tenant in Typical settlement just months prior to Robertson died in August 2023. A duplicate of the new arrangement was involved in the authorized motion and now states that if a single of them have been to die, the estate would presume accountability for obtaining to spend off the deceased’s 50 % of the house finance loan.

Robertson’s heirs are asking the court to terminate the agreement. They did not quickly provide remarks to the Instances by way of their lawyer.

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