In August 2022, a very serious car accident ended the life of actress Anne Heche. A week after crashing into a house in Los Angeles with his car, a blue Mini Cooper, and suffering serious brain injuries as a result of which he was admitted to the hospital in a coma, his family announced that he was brain dead and that, at Not surviving, they had decided to donate their organs. She was 53 years old. Then a battle broke out that has lasted 20 months and, as in so many sad stories, has money as the protagonist. Because after having starred in both cult titles (Donnie Brascothe Psychosis by Gus Van Sant) as popular (six days and seven nights, Volcano) his inheritance is so small that it does not even come close to paying his debts.
Heche left two children. The oldest, Homer Heche Laffoon, is 22 years old and was born during his marriage to cameraman Coley Laffoon (they were married between 2001 and 2009); while the little one, Atlas Heche Tupper, is the son of his relationship with actor James Tupper (with whom he dated intermittently since his divorce until 2018) and has just turned 15 years old. Hence, it is the eldest who is in charge of everything related to the actress’s inheritance, who did not leave a written will. Apparently, before her mother died she wrote an email where she appointed him as administrator; Furthermore, Homer himself asked to take charge of everything just a few weeks after the interpreter’s death. Now, the young man has assured that it is impossible for him to settle his mother’s outstanding accounts, that there is no money for it. In total, she says, the actress, with her assets, her bank accounts and what she received from her films, she only had about 110,000 dollars (barely 103,000 euros). However, her heirs face several lawsuits, especially from the tenants and owners of the house where she crashed, the amount of which exceeds four million dollars (3.7 million euros).
According to a report that he himself has provided to the media E.T. On-line, what Heche left behind consists of five parts. First, “a modest bank account.” Second, the payments of rights and the so-called residual, the money that actors receive from the series and films they have made throughout their career, especially when they are re-broadcast on television. Third, a company with which Heche managed her career and which she owned alone. Fourth, a participation in a limited company with which the actress intended to create a podcast. And, fifth and last, his own personal assets.
Some of those assets “are being appraised,” according to Homer H. Laffoon, but, in any case, they will not be enough to cover the debt. Hence, they are also considering auctioning the actress’s personal belongings. Although in January 2023 she released a posthumous memoir, titled Call Me Anne, this has not been a great sales success either, and they do not expect to get more than $25,000 from it. “Taking into account the expected value of the inventories and appraisals as a whole, as well as the claims of creditors presented,” reads the report presented by the actress’s first-born son, “the estate and successors are insolvent.”
The young man states that he is “actively participating in attempts to negotiate appropriate settlements of the claims” and also that he has been part of “important meetings and attempts to unite and consult with creditors, to try to avoid protracted and costly litigation against the Heritage”. He wants to be “cautiously optimistic” about creditor claims and that they “can be resolved fairly and without litigation,” according to the report.
Heche crashed into a home in Mar Vista, a wealthy neighborhood near the Pacific, and was stuck in her car for 45 minutes while the Mini, as well as part of the house, burned; The smoke and burns caused his death. Now, that house has just been completely renovated, 20 months after the spectacular accident that almost completely destroyed it. In black and white, with a raised porch, three bedrooms and three bathrooms, the owners have decided to get rid of it and have put it up for sale. Its market value last February, in its first days on sale, was 1.49 million dollars, according to the portal TMZalthough in the following weeks they have lowered it a couple of times to now 1.35 million.
The then tenant of the house sued the family in November 2022 for the trauma and for suffering from anxiety and depression, and because, she claims, she lost most of her possessions and was on the verge of losing her life as well. She demanded two million dollars. The owners also sued the actress’s heirs seeking, again, two million dollars for the damages suffered. In addition, Heche’s ex-boyfriend, Thomas Jane, also filed a complaint stating that he lent the interpreter $157,000 that she was going to return to him in payments of $10,000 a month, but that he only complied with the first two payments; In total and with interest, she asks for about $150,000. As if that were not enough, there is also an outstanding credit card debt. This amounts to $36,000.
