He alleged that the original 2005 trust document designates Adam, Lorca and Anjani Thomas - Kory’s ex-wife and Leonard Cohen’s former lover - as trustees after his death, and that after Cohen’s death at the age of 82, Kory “swapped out… the page that says Adam, Lorca and Anjani, with a new page… that says Kory is designated trustee.” “Leonard Cohen’s lawyers and manager forged his trust so they could fleece the estate of millions of dollars and steal the Hall of Famer’s legacy from his own children,” Cohen’s children’s attorney Adam Streisand - singer Barbra Streisand’s cousin - told the US outlet.

The trust manages royalties for the late Jewish Canadian singer’s music as well as over 8,000 photographs he took and poetry, novels and 243 journal notebooks he wrote. Leonard Cohan’s children are embroiled in a legal battle for control over the legendary singer’s estate, charging that an attorney forged the document that handed him trusteeship over the $48 million enterprise, according to a report Monday.Īdam Cohen, 50, and Lorca Cohen, 48, are arguing that Robert Kory, an attorney who controls the Leonard Cohen Family Trust since the “Hallelujah” singer’s death in 2016, has kept them out of the loop on its finances and allegedly took control of it by fraud, The New York Post reported citing documents from the Los Angeles Superior Court.

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