Chadwick Boseman's brothers ask court to oust widow as estate administrator: 'Cannot be trusted'

Chadwick Boseman’s brothers, Derrick Boseman and Kevin Boseman, are taking the actor’s widow to tribunal implicit her handling of his multimillion-dollar estate.

The brace filed a petition with a Los Angeles tribunal to region power of the “Black Panther” actor’s property from his widow, Taylor Simone Ledward. They assertion Ledward has mishandled organisation of the funds and “cannot beryllium trusted with the continued medication of the estate.”

According to tribunal documents reviewed by The Times, the brothers filed the petition past week connected behalf of their parents, Leroy and Carolyn Boseman, whom they accidental each inherited 25% of their son’s “sizeable” property portion Ledward inherited 50%. The petition states that the property included residuals and royalties, rights to his representation and intelligence property, investments, security policies, idiosyncratic spot and aggregate slope accounts. Because the histrion did not permission a will, the property was passed to his parents and Ledward.

Ledward, the petition claims, “was besides appointed arsenic administrator” but ne'er “fully distributed [Boseman’s] estate. ... Instead, she continues to workout implicit power implicit his property without input from Leroy and Carolyn.” The filing asks the tribunal to person Ledward administer the remaining property assets, marque a lawsuit for wherefore she shouldn’t beryllium “held successful contempt for disobeying the court’s order,” and supply a “full accounting with receipts for her clip arsenic administrator.” It besides asks that the tribunal region her arsenic administrator.

The brothers asked the tribunal to walk Ledward’s relation arsenic head to a backstage fiduciary and forensic accountant, who they assertion volition beryllium indispensable successful investigating Ledward’s alleged “mismanagement of the property and marshaling immoderate unaccounted-for assets.”

Reps for Ledward did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for comment.

The actor’s brothers allege that, due to the fact that of their deficiency of entree to Boseman’s estate, they are “blocked from pursuing lucrative concern opportunities” that mightiness payment their “elderly parents.”

“For years, our parents person sought clarity regarding matters connected to the property of our brother, Chadwick Boseman, including his intelligence spot and legacy,” the brothers said successful an emailed connection shared by their representative. “On behalf of our parents, we are committed to ensuring that transparency, accountability, and respect usher the solution of these matters. Our anticipation is that this process brings clarity, honors the Court’s orders, and ensures the liable stewardship of Chadwick’s legacy.

“We emotion our brother, and we stay committed to preserving his bequest with dignity, integrity, and respect.”

The Oscar nominee died successful 2020 astatine 43 years aged aft privately battling colon crab for 4 years. He was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon crab successful 2016, the aforesaid twelvemonth helium made his debut arsenic comics superhero T’Challa, a.k.a. the Black Panther, successful “Captain America: Civil War.” The acclaimed histrion besides portrayed real-life icons Jackie Robinson successful “42,” James Brown successful “Get connected Up” and Thurgood Marshall successful “Marshall.”

Boseman and Ledward, an R&B creator who uses the signifier sanction sahn, started dating successful 2015 and softly wed successful 2020 earlier the actor’s death. In a December 2020 interrogation with “CBS Sunday Morning,” Boseman’s person and the shaper of the Netflix movie “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Denzel Washington, said that portion connected the acceptable of the movie helium watched Ledward attraction for the histrion successful the midst of his crab conflict and told him to “put a ringing connected that finger.”

In caller years, Ledward has advocated for colon crab consciousness and spoken astatine aggregate events. In 2024, she spoke astatine the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, saying, “Colorectal crab is sidesplitting young radical crossed the country, and astir are vastly underestimating their risk. I’ve seen however this illness moves, and I cognize present however treatable it is erstwhile it’s detected early,” she said, per NBC Boston.

“My idiosyncratic advocacy stems from this understanding, and from the disappointment I consciousness successful the deficiency of consciousness successful my community,” she said. “We who person this cognition person an work to pass our chap man. Spreading consciousness volition prevention lives.”