A surprise turn has arisen in the legal battle of the long duration by Tony Hsieh’s fortune, the missing CEO of Zappos and the technological visionary who died in 2020.
A mysterious will, allegedly signed by HSIEH (usually pronounced “Shay”, which rhymes with “day”) five years before his death, appeared this spring, delivered by mail to a Nevada ownership lawyer who had no previous connection to the entrepreneur, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The will, 2015, names solicitor Robert Armstrong as HSIEH’s co-executor, but Armstrong says he never met HSIEH and had no role in his real estate planning.
Armstrong was stunned by receiving the document, which reached an envelope not marked earlier this year, according to a judicial file.
The sudden aspect of the will has launched the case of the HSIEH test in the turmoil.
Until now, his family had been operating under the event he died without a will. His father, Richard Hsieh, has been administrating the estate for more than three years.
“There is nothing” devastated “on the exam thoroughly a document that does not leave the place, more than four years after the death of Tony Hsieh,” The Journal Dara Goldsmith, a lawyer representing the family.
He added that Richard Hsieh “has faithfully administered his son Tony’s estate and guarded Tony’s legacy.”
According to reports, the recent improvement includes more than $ 50 million in assets and various properties of Las Vegas, directing -to a series of trustlessnesses with no name.
It also describes charitable donations (including a $ 3 million gift to HSIEH’s alma mater, Harvard University), as well as additional gifts to foundations and family members.
The rest of the farm would still go to HSIEH family.
In a court hearing on Thursday in Las Vegas, there was little clarity as to whether the document is legitimate, or even where it came from.
The court learned that shortly after receiving the will, Armstrong received a telephone call from a man identifying himself as Kashif Singh.
Singh explained that the will had come from his late grandfather, Pir Muhammad, who was appointed in the document as a co-executor and that he allegedly suffered dementia before he died.
The situation has left both the court and those involved in the uncertain estate on how to proceed.
Armstrong, along with his lawyer and named co-executor Mark Ferrario, say that the HSIEH family’s legal team has responded with too aggressive tactics.
In an archive, they accused the family lawyers of adopting a “devastated land approach” and making “more than 70 applications for documents” of their companies “in an apparent step to invalidate the will”.
Goldsmith countered that the family has not decided if they formally challenged the will.
“It would be premature,” he said during the hearing, adding that confirming the identity of the witnesses whose signatures appear in the will is a priority before conclusions can be drawn.
“At the time of a state conference, the co-executors requested it because a will had been housed, but we did not know what the next procedural steps would be,” the prosecutor Leigh Goddard, who represents Armstrong, told KTNV-TV.
“Since then, we have been, as I say, with some hostility of the administrator and advice on quotations and requests for information. We thought we will only discuss procedure steps, but things have changed.”
At the end of May, lawyers representing Harvard University requested that they be informed about all court proceedings related to the case. Harvard’s lawyer was also present in Thursday’s sight, sitting with Armstrong and Ferrario.
Tony Hsieh died in November 2020 at the age of 46 due to injuries suffered in a home fire in New London, Conn. The medical examiner ruled his death an accident.
At the time of his way, Hsieh had moved away from Zappos and lived a semi-reclose life marked by erratic behavior and substance abuse, according to friends and reports.
Hsieh, who made his fortune from Zappos in Amazon for $ 1.2 billion in 2009, was widely admired by his unconventional approach to business and leadership.
His book “Giving Happiness” became a Best -Seller, and his investment projects from the Vegas Center attracted businessmen from all over the country.
The publication has sought comments from the HSIEH, Armstrong, Singh, Harvard and Ferrario family.
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