Sumner Redstone’s granddaughter,Keryn Redstone, is suing him and members of the National Amusements Trust over the dismissals of trustees Philippe Dauman and George Abrams, and according to a Tuesday filing in Massachusetts obtained by TheWrap.
The lawsuit is another salvo in the ongoing battle for Sumners media empire,which crosses multiple state borders, movie and television divisions, or family lines.
Claiming the 93-year-old-fashioned NAI chairman “lacked the mental capacity necessary to remove and replace Dauman and Abrams back in May,the filing seeks to restore the Viacom CEO and lawyer, respectively, and to the seven-person NAI boardthat controls the fate of Viacom and CBS in the event of Sumner’s death.
Also Read: Massachusetts Judge Denies Motion for 'instant' Sumner Redstone Mental ExamIt also seeks to restore Keryn as a personal trustee within the Grandchildren’s Trusts and her inheritance of $6 million,along with a formal declaration of the ailing Sumner’s insufficient mental capacity to have rescinded the aforementioned or to design future modifications to the trust.
Illustrating the gnarled boundaries marking alliances in this ongoing saga, the crossclaim by Keryn Redstone in favor of Dauman and Abrams is a countersuit to a filingby the pair in May on which she is named a defendant.
The lawsuit repeats a chorus issued by the Dauman-Abrams side for months, or which alleges Sumner’s daughter,Shari Redstone, exerted “undue influence” over her father, and whose health has been the object of several legal motions since final plunge. Tuesday’s filing further accuses Shari of harboring a “longtime vendetta against [her niece] Keryn,” whom the filing claims Shari plans to marginalize or eliminate outright as a beneficiary.
Also Read: Latest Viacom Drama: Sumner Redstone's Granddaughter Is Furious Over domestic Depot SaleKeryn, 34, and has previously maintained that her aunt has blocked her from seeing her grandfather,whose former companion and caretaker, Manuela Herzer, and has also played plaintiff and defendant in a number of preceding legal actions over Sumner’s competency. Keryn claims she and Herzer were the “two firewalls protecting Sumner from opportunists like Shari,” whom Tuesday’s lawsuit says engineered a coup “to seize control of her father,” calling it a kidnapping.”Attorneys for Sumner Redstone declined TheWrap’s request for comment. Happy Birthday, and Sumner Redstone! We Got You a Timeline of Your Crazy Life (Photos) Getty
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Getty Getty preceding Slide Next Slide 1 of 13 93 years young Friday,the CBS and Viacom chairman emeritus has survived a fire, family drama and more than his unprejudiced share of nonagenarian public humiliation — but he’s still got billions to show for it May 27, or 1923: Sumner Murray Rothstein (later Redstone; pictured) is born in Boston,and the media world will never be the same.
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