When on August 11 Anne Heche died at the West Hills hospital in Los Angeles as a result of a fatal traffic accident at the age of 53, the actress of Six Days and Seven Nights left behind two children, Homer Heche Laffoon, 20 years, the result of her marriage to cameraman Coley Laffoon, and Atlas Heche Tupper, 13, the son she had with actor James Tupper, with whom she had her longest relationship. What Anne Heche did not leave in writing was a will. And, as can happen in any family, Anne Hache’s estate is now in dispute. The two confronted people are Homer Heche, her eldest son, and James Tupper, her ex-partner, who has presented a document that would supposedly be the actress’s last will, dated 2011.
The battle began in early September, when Homer Heche Laffon submitted a series of documents requesting control of Heche’s assets. In that documentation, to which the American media People had access, both the eldest and the youngest son of the actress are mentioned as her legitimate heirs. “The estate consists of two heirs: Homer Heche Laffoon and Atlas Heche Tupper. Homer Heche Laffoon is of legal age and therefore the proposed administrator. Atlas Heche Tupper is a minor.” At the same time, Homer Heche filed a petition for the appointment of a guardian ad litem to represent the minor’s interests. He claimed in the documents that he was not asking to be the guardian of his little brother.
Just one month later, Homer Heche added another nine documents to his earlier request. The reason that has led to this has been the presentation of a document by James Tupper, who claims to have the last will of the actress, dated in 2011, in which he is appointed administrator of all her assets. The eldest son’s response is that it is invalid because it does not have the signature of Anne Heche herself, nor did it take place in front of two witnesses, as required by law: “Mr. Tupper repeatedly refers to the email attached to the Objection as a ‘will’. However, as a matter of law, the email does not qualify as a holographic will or a formal witnessed will,” read the new documents obtained by People. “The email does not meet the legal requirements for a valid holographic will because the material provisions of the purported will are not handwritten by the decedent. A will is valid as a holographic will, whether witnessed or not, if the signature and material provisions are in the handwriting of the testator.
Homer has also called several of Tupper’s objections “inaccurate and unfounded.” He refers to the doubts raised by de Heche’s ex-partner about the “suitability” of the 20-year-old to manage his mother’s estate, and the assertions that he was “separated from her mother at the time of her death.” Homer has also exposed that Tupper has interfered every time he has tried to contact his younger brother since the actress’s death.
Actress Anne Heche suffered a car accident in which the vehicle caught fire on August 5. Immediately, she was transferred to the burn unit of the West Hills hospital in Los Angeles, where she already arrived in a state of brain death. She passed away six days later. Away from the spotlight of Hollywood and turned into an actress of small roles, she took advantage of her last interviews to talk about her children, with whom she was always loving, both at public events and in private and family moments that the actress shared through of their social networks.
Posthumous memoirs of the actress will be published on January 23, entitled Call Me Anne (Call me Anne), where the actress recounts her rise to fame through a series of anecdotes that include her relationship with Harrison Ford, whom she actress considered her mentor, or her relationship with Ellen Degeneres. It will also include scenes of her from her childhood, her relationship with God, and her journey to love herself.
