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Robin Williams and his family. NPX/starmaxinc.com

Robin Williams' family fight over his Oscar - but don't want to go to court

The dispute centres on objects related to the actor’s career, such as his 1998 Oscar.

ROBIN WILLIAMS’ WIDOW and his three children have agreed to out-of-court negotiations in a battle over parts of the late actor’s estate — including movie awards such as his 1998 Oscar for “Good Will Hunting.”

A judge in San Francisco delayed until June a hearing on a suit filed in December by Susan Schneider, with whom the comedian and movie star had been married for five years when he died by suicide in August of last year at the age of 63.

Children 

Schneider’s attorney, James Wagstaffe, told AFP that over the next two weeks he would meet with Williams’ three children from two previous marriages — Zelda, Zachary and Cody Williams – to try to reach an agreement.

If this fails a mediator will intervene, he said.

The deadline is June, when the battle could reach court and become public.

The dispute centres on objects related to the actor’s career, his childhood and objects from his office, except the furniture that was in the house he shared with his now widow.

Robin Williams dies age 63 RE / Westcom/starmaxinc.com RE / Westcom/starmaxinc.com / Westcom/starmaxinc.com

The movie awards that Williams won, such as his Oscar, would be worth a lot of money to his children, the attorney said.

Schneider said in her lawsuit that the executors of the fund that the actor created to manage his estate insisted, days after his death, on having access to his home to share out and take possession of some objects.

The widow says all she wants is the suit Williams wore in the ceremony in which he married her and their wedding gifts.

Zelda Williams rejected reports on social media on Monday that she and her siblings had already removed objects from the home of their late father.

© AFP 2015.

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    Mute Misanthrope
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:15 PM

    Inside job

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    Mute Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:18 PM

    @Misanthrope: definition someone with more knowledge than they should have had..

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    Mute Jimbo Jones
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:19 PM

    Nice that he wore a hi-vis. Good to see that health and safety is being taken seriously.

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    Mute Ciarán McPhillips
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:19 PM

    Who withdraws €55,000 in cash for any legitimate reason nowadays? Seriously??!!

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    Mute Casper
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:22 PM

    @Ciarán McPhillips:

    Are you trying to say the business was using the 55000 euro for illegitimate reasons

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    Mute Ciarán McPhillips
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:27 PM

    @Casper: what business? There is no mention of any business in the article above.

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    Mute Casper
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:31 PM

    @Ciarán McPhillips:

    Just because it’s not mentioned doesn’t mean it’s not a business

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    Mute Ciarán McPhillips
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:35 PM

    @Casper: well unfortunately I just read the facts outlined in the article. It must be much more interesting reading the news when you don’t allow the facts to get in the way. Maybe extra terrestrials appeared and abducted them and stole the money. I mean using your logic- just because it doesn’t say it…..

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    Mute Dave Murray
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:40 PM

    @Casper: Excellent retort there.

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    Mute Casper
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:41 PM

    @Ciarán McPhillips:

    Happy Xmas Ciaran

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    Mute David Conroy
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    Dec 21st 2017, 6:28 PM

    @Ciarán McPhillips: Agree, I smell a large hairy rat, who carries that amount of cash for either personal or business use nowadays ?
    It just does not add up or make sense, why did bells not ring in the Bank either ?

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    Mute Father Hody Commody
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    Dec 21st 2017, 6:46 PM

    @Casper: Well, if you happen to have that kind of cash on you boarding an aircraft, god help you.

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    Mute Martin Morris
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    Dec 21st 2017, 7:00 PM

    @Ciarán McPhillips: hahahahahahaha just so good. I was saying boooourns.

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    Mute Jack O'neill
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    Dec 21st 2017, 9:17 PM

    @Ciarán McPhillips: The robbery happened outside Rialto credit union.

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    Mute Mick Jordan
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:23 PM

    Who other than Cash in Transit Security withdraws €55,000 in cash from a Bank? 20-30 years ago understandable as possibly payroll. But today very very rare. One would have to ask questions as to what it was for.

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    Mute Casper
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:25 PM

    @Mick Jordan:

    Isn’t that the work of the Garda, like I am pretty sure this is all the stuff they will be looking into

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    Mute Niall Sullivan
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:39 PM

    @Mick Jordan: Paying a large sum of cash is not at all unusual. Many business sale deals are two thirds through the books, one third cash. Used to be fairly common. Same for selling commercial property. About 30% under the counter is common.

    The questions would need to be asked of the person receiving it on such a transaction, rather than the person paying it over, assuming the person paying it over got it legitimately. If they took it from a bank, it’s very likely declared and legitimate income. Revenue know about deposits.

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    Mute Aidan Molyneux
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    Dec 21st 2017, 7:19 PM

    @Casper: my question is why did the Garda wait from the 7th to 21st before asking for witnesses

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    Mute Rónán O'Suilleabháin
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    Dec 21st 2017, 8:35 PM

    might be what I’ve heard called the ‘manage’ in cork. A couple of people collect money from colleagues all year, bank it, then give it back at Christmas time.

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    Mute Mark Heehee
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    Dec 22nd 2017, 8:01 AM

    @Aidan Molyneux: that’s my question too. I’ve been in the area many times,but was I there exactly 2 weeks ago at lunch? Why the delay in looking for witnesses?

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    Mute Ciarán McPhillips
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:24 PM

    The more I read this the more peculiar it becomes

    No description other an average height
    No mention of any age profile
    No mantion of any sort of accent
    He approached on foot
    Left on a bicycle
    Having (presumably) followed them by car?

    Tia less fishy in Leo Burdocks

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    Mute Casper
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:26 PM

    @Ciarán McPhillips:

    Keep reading you might come up with more

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    Mute David Dickson
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:25 PM

    Why did the guards wait two weeks to make an appeal for dash camera video? How could anyone remember two weeks ago

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    Mute Casper
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:28 PM

    @David Dickson:

    Well if they look at the dash camera on that day the camera will jog their memories

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    Mute John Barnes
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:58 PM

    @Casper: cams override constantly no storage

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    Mute Father Hody Commody
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    Dec 21st 2017, 6:47 PM

    @David Dickson: Plus dash cams overwrite themselves.

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    Mute Sean Whelan
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    Dec 21st 2017, 7:26 PM

    I don’t think you can walk into a bank and just withdraw large amounts of cash on demand anymore, as far as I know it has to be ordered in advance.
    If I was hedging my bets I’d be looking at an inside job.
    Not very difficult to tip someone off to a large withdrawal, sure you even know the person’s name and address in advance.

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    Mute Liam
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:20 PM

    An oddity amongst oddities

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    Mute Brian O Reilly
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:40 PM

    It was Santa ,

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    Mute Casper
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:20 PM

    It’s the season for a bit of silliness and this inside job is pure silliness

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    Mute Dave Murray
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    Dec 21st 2017, 5:42 PM

    @Casper: taking €55,000 out of a bank in cash is pretty silly too, I would say.

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    Mute Casper
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    Dec 21st 2017, 6:21 PM

    @Dave Murray:

    Not if they have 55 members of family that they wanted to give a Xmas pressie of €1000 each

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    Mute Fiona deFreyne
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    Dec 21st 2017, 6:19 PM

    An amazing coincidence. Santa was early.

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    Mute Joe Dobias
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    Dec 21st 2017, 8:21 PM

    Sounds like a inside job.

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    Mute Sarah Murphy
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    Dec 22nd 2017, 9:26 AM

    Pedal Cycle; why use one word when you can use two

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    Mute Terry Burns
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    Dec 22nd 2017, 3:43 AM

    It sounds like a bloke year’s ago in a bank in Talbot st.someone lodged it .?

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    Mute brian oconnell
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    Dec 29th 2017, 1:06 PM

    Probably an “inside family” job!

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