![]() ![]() “In my opinion, there is something quite irregular with this development,” says Capt. These groups now are coping with the discrepancy between how he had expressed his wishes for continued patronage of their causes while he was alive and how the trust has communicated and demonstrated its support. Several prominent nonprofits, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which had grown to rely on the producer’s largesse while he was alive, say they have gone unexpectedly without his support since his passing, despite his verbal assurances to them that his trust would provide for them. The Kilmers aren’t the only animal lovers feeling wronged by the Simon trust. (Tyson did not initiate contact with The Hollywood Reporter this story emerged from reporting into Simon’s posthumous philanthropy.) “It’s a stick-up,” says the trust’s attorney, Paul Sorrell of Lavely & Singer. Brooks.įor its part, the trust, overseen by Simon’s former business manager, paints Tyson, 46, as a shakedown artist, alleging that he requested $1.7 million and then demanded a lump-sum payment and threatened to “go to the press” if that was rejected. Simon (far right), with fellow executive producers of ‘ The Simpsons’ Matt Groening (far left) and James L. Simon, whose fortune is said to be worth several hundred million dollars, paid for this regimen until he died. style, twice-a-week acupuncture that costs $3,640 per month. The trouble is that the Kilmers got the dog but not the funds they say Simon verbally had promised them to maintain Columbo’s estimated $140,000 annual medical and therapeutic care regimen that includes, in only-in-L.A. ![]() In what’s emerging as one of the most peculiar estate battles in recent Hollywood history, the couple claims they’ve been left high and dry by the trust of the late Simpsons co-creator and animal rights philanthropist Sam Simon, their close friend who bequeathed them his troubled rescue dog after his death in March at 59 from colon cancer. On a quiet September afternoon at his rambling home and training compound in Encino, Calif., with Columbo at his feet and his wife and business partner, Alison, at his side, it’s his own aggression that he’s trying to keep in check. This is the behavior of a 12-year-old dog, not a 5-year-old.”Ĭolumbo’s owner, cheerleading captain and injury analyst Tyson Kilmer, also is one of the go-to canine-aggression trainers for the entertainment industry (his clients have ranged from Tom Freston and Mike Tyson to Joni Mitchell and Rob Lowe). “See how he’s dragging that leg? Watch his hips, too. “Come on, boy, come on, come on !” Arduously, Columbo finally obeys his owner, right hind leg limping as he lopes forward. “Columbo, come on, boy, come on, let’s go!” The 125-pound, 5-year-old Cane Corso, its obsidian folds of fur arranged in curled repose, just won’t rise from the floor. ![]()
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