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 nan actor’s widow to tribunal complete her handling of his multimillion-dollar estate.

The brace revenge a petition pinch a Los Angeles tribunal to region power of nan “Black Panther” actor’s property from his widow, Taylor Simone Ledward. They declare Ledward has mishandled distribution of nan costs and “cannot beryllium trusted pinch nan continued management of nan estate.”

According to tribunal documents reviewed by The Times, nan brothers revenge nan petition past week connected behalf of their parents, Leroy and Carolyn Boseman, whom they opportunity each inherited 25% of their son’s “sizeable” property while Ledward inherited 50%. The petition states that nan property included residuals and royalties, authorities to his image and intelligence property, investments, security policies, individual spot and aggregate slope accounts. Because nan character did not time off a will, nan property was passed to his parents and Ledward.

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

The brothers asked nan tribunal to walk Ledward’s domiciled arsenic administrator to a backstage fiduciary and forensic accountant, who they declare will beryllium basal successful investigating Ledward’s alleged “mismanagement of nan 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, because of their deficiency of entree to Boseman’s estate, they are “blocked from pursuing lucrative business opportunities” that mightiness use their “elderly parents.”

“For years, our parents person sought clarity regarding matters connected to nan property of our brother, Chadwick Boseman, including his intelligence spot and legacy,” nan 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 guideline nan solution of these matters. Our dream is that this process brings clarity, honors nan Court’s orders, and ensures nan responsible stewardship of Chadwick’s legacy.

“We emotion our brother, and we stay committed to preserving his bequest pinch 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 pinch Stage 3 colon crab successful 2016, nan aforesaid twelvemonth he made his debut arsenic comics superhero T’Challa, a.k.a. nan Black Panther, successful “Captain America: Civil War.” The acclaimed character 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 nan shape sanction sahn, started making love successful 2015 and softly wed successful 2020 earlier nan actor’s death. In a December 2020 question and reply pinch “CBS Sunday Morning,” Boseman’s friend and nan shaper of nan Netflix movie “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Denzel Washington, said that while connected nan group of nan movie he watched Ledward attraction for nan character successful nan 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 said astatine nan Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, saying, “Colorectal crab is sidesplitting young group crossed nan country, and astir are vastly underestimating their risk. I’ve seen really this illness moves, and I cognize now really treatable it is erstwhile it’s detected early,” she said, per NBC Boston.

“My individual defense stems from this understanding, and from nan disappointment I consciousness successful nan deficiency of consciousness successful my community,” she said. “We who person this knowledge person an responsibility to pass our chap man. Spreading consciousness will prevention lives.”