The household of the late Tony Hsieh says that a mysterious doc purported to be a will left behind by the former Zappos CEO is a forgery.
An attorney for Richard Hsieh (pronounced “SHAY”), who has been managing the $500 million property since his son died of accidents from a fire in 2020, filed a formal objection on Monday calling the purported will a “scam.”
“Scams come in all shapes and sizes,” attorneys for Hsieh’s household said in Monday’s submitting, the existence of which was reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The household of the late Tony Hsieh says that a mysterious doc purported to be a will left behind by the former Zappos CEO is a forgery. AP
“In this case, the scam is in the form of a document being touted as the purported will of Anthony ‘Tony’ Hsieh.”
According to the Journal, Hsieh’s next of kin employed an skilled in counterfeit-document detection who concluded that the late CEO’s signatures on the mysterious doc are forgeries.
The household also employed a linguistics skilled who discovered that the language used in the doc was not drafted by skilled legal professionals.
The purported will was instead written by “non-native speakers of English,” Hsieh household legal professionals said in a court doc.
The purported will was introduced to the court by a man who recognized himself as Kashif Singh, who claimed he found the doc among the belongings of his grandfather, Pir Muhammad, after Muhammad’s death.
According to the submitting, Singh said Muhammad suffered from dementia before he died.
Hsieh is credited with turning online shoe retailer Zappos into a profitable company. AFP/Getty Images
The doc names Robert Armstrong, a outstanding Nevada property attorney, as a co-executor of Hsieh’s property.
Armstrong has said he never met Hsieh and was not concerned in any property planning for the Zappos founder.
In a court submitting, Armstrong said he acquired a call from a man figuring out himself as Singh shortly after studying he had been named in the purported will.
Attorneys for the Hsieh household said they have repeatedly tried to contact Singh by letter, cellphone and e mail but have acquired no response.
Tony Hsieh, who bought online shoe retailer Zappos to Amazon for about $1.2 billion in 2009, died in November 2020 after struggling accidents in a home fire. He was 46.
At the time of his death, it was broadly believed that Hsieh had no will, prompting a Nevada court to appoint his father as administrator of the property.
Tony Hsieh, who bought online shoe retailer Zappos to Amazon for about $1.2 billion in 2009, died in November 2020 after struggling accidents in a home fire. He was 46. FilmMagic
The purported will contains a no-contest clause warning Hsieh’s 4 remaining relations that if any of them problem the doc, all would obtain nothing.
A court listening to is scheduled for Thursday in Las Vegas, where a choose is expected to deal with the household’s objection and the future of the contested doc.
Singh, the Hsieh property and Armstrong were not immediately obtainable for remark.