Two months after movie star health guru Richard Simmons died all of a sudden on July 13, his brother, Leonard “Lenny” Simmons, and longtime home supervisor, Teresa Reveles, are combating over his property.

Reveles claims she was squeezed out from her co-trustee position by Lenny and his spouse, Cathy, and desires to be reinstated. The couple says “Teresa’s greed” is “threaten[ing] to hurt Richard’s unbelievable legacy.”

What simply occurred?

In line with court docket paperwork obtained by Yahoo Leisure, Reveles filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court docket on Sept. 25 to be reinstated as co-trustee of Richard’s property.

Within the submitting, she says she was Richard’s finest pal and live-in companion for practically 36 years, and she or he was appointed as a co-trustee together with Lenny. When Richard died — from problems from current falls — she alleges that Lenny and his spouse hatched a “nefarious scheme” for “sole management” of the belief.

The day after Reveles found Richard lifeless, she claims Lenny and his spouse, who hadn’t visited the aerobics king in over six years, arrived in Los Angeles and needed to right away focus on authorized affairs. She was “distraught” and pushed again a gathering till July 18.

The day of the assembly, the housekeeper claims Lenny instructed her that being a trustee was a giant duty that required making ready plenty of paperwork for legal professionals, and if “she made any mistake, she would lose a part of her inheritance” as a beneficiary of the property. In her “fragile emotional state,” having simply been to a viewing of Richard’s physique, Reveles signed the paperwork stripping her of her position as co-trustee, saying she didn’t notice she would don’t have any say in decision-making.

Reveles claims she was “coerced and fraudulently induced to signal.” She was not proven a duplicate of the belief, didn’t have an legal professional current and English isn’t her first language, in keeping with the submitting. In consequence, she needs to be reinstated as co-trustee and, whereas that’s pending, block Lenny from benefiting from Richard’s picture and likeness.

Reveles’s legal professional didn’t reply to request for additional remark concerning the submitting.

How did Richard’s brother reply?

Tom Estey, a spokesperson for the Simmons household, shared a press release with Yahoo calling Reveles’s allegations “demonstrably false.”

“Richard’s message was all the time certainly one of pleasure and positivity. He can be heartbroken to study of Teresa’s greed and insulted that she would diminish their three a long time of supposed friendship in such a public manner,” it started. “Her actions threaten to hurt Richard’s unbelievable legacy, which we’re working laborious to protect.”

The assertion continued, “Richard took impeccable care of Teresa and made positive even after his passing that she was effectively taken care of. She is a major beneficiary of his will. She made an knowledgeable resolution to say no to function co-trustee of the property, which doesn’t have an effect on her standing as a beneficiary in any respect.”

Additional, Estey slammed Reveles for persevering with to stay in Richard’s house two months after his loss of life, although she has her personal residence, accusing her of ”try[ing] to cost the property for her dwelling bills.” Reveles can also be accused of pitching a Netflix documentary about Richard that may be “hurtful” to his legacy.

The assertion ended with: “When the court docket is apprised of the details that have already got been given to Teresa’s legal professional, we’re assured that the court docket will deny the petition.”

In line with court docket data, a listening to will happen Dec. 4 at 8:30 a.m. at Stanley Mosk Courthouse in L.A.

What will we learn about Richard’s loss of life?

The one-of-a-kind TV persona — who was reclusive in his remaining years, resulting in hypothesis about his well-being in podcasts (like 2017’s Lacking Richard Simmons) and on social media — collapsed on the ground of his house on July 11. He spent your entire subsequent day in mattress. On July 13, Reveles discovered him unresponsive on the bed room flooring and he was pronounced lifeless on the scene.

His reason for loss of life was decided to be the results of blunt traumatic accidents, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Workplace stated in a press launch on Aug. 22. The style of loss of life was dominated as an accident.

Arteriosclerotic heart problems, when the arteries harden and grow to be slim, was listed as a contributing situation. Prescription drugs in his system did “not seem to have contributed to the reason for loss of life,” it was famous.

On the time of Richard’s loss of life, Lenny praised Reveles to Individuals journal, saying she was “extraordinarily loyal and reliable. She liked my brother, and he liked her. We’re blessed to have Teresa in our lives.”