Larry King's handwritten will complicates the fight over talk-show host's estate

Reports of a handwritten will surfaced recently and Larry King's wife Shawn King was notably omitted from the 2019 document. Photo: AP

Shawn King, who had been married to the newsman since 1997, is contesting a handwritten amendment to the Larry King Live star's will and has gone to court to contest his son Larry King Jr.'s emergency move to become a special administrator of the estate.

Reports of the handwritten will surfaced recently and Shawn King – née Shawn Southwick – was notably omitted from the 2019 document, known as a holographic will. The document left the talk-show host's estate, initially estimated at US$2mil (RM8mil), to his five children, two of whom died in 2020.