Leonard Cohen's family launch new lawsuit over ‘swindling' of fortune
Leonard Cohen 's children have accused the singer 's former lawyer of forging documents that allowed millions to be 'siphoned' from the family estate.
Adam and Lorca Cohen filed a lawsuit accusing lawyer Reeve Chudd of malpractice for forging documents to allow their Canadian-born father's manager, Robert Kory, to be named as a trustee of their father's estate.
The lawsuit accuses Ervin Cohen & Jessup (ECJ), where Mr Chudd was previously a partner, of 'turning a blind eye to Kory's self-dealing and covering up its own wrongdoing'.
In 2010 Cohen 'purportedly' replaced his children and his former partner Anjani Thomas with Mr Kory as the sole successor of his trust. He then revoked this decision in 2016 and reinstated his children and Ms Thomas as successor trustees, according to the suit.
Shortly after Cohen's death in 2016, EJC were alleged to have forged trust documents to make it appear Mr Jory was the sole successor.
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