Paul Newman's daughters sue late actor's charity foundation
Source: AP
By DAVE COLLINS
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) A new lawsuit has exposed a deep rift between two of Paul Newmans daughters and the late actors charitable foundation funded by profits from the Newmans Own line of food and drink products.
The daughters, Susan Kendall Newman and Nell Newman, allege their own charity organizations are both supposed to receive $400,000 a year from the Newmans Own Foundation under a mandate by their father, but the foundation has cut those payments in half in recent years.
They filed a lawsuit Tuesday in state court in Stamford, Connecticut, seeking $1.6 million in damages to be donated to their foundations for charitable giving.
The daughters say their father, who started Newmans Own Foundation three years before he died in 2008, allowed the foundation to use his name and likeness but only on several conditions including giving each of the two daughters foundations $400,000 a year.
FILE Susan Newman, left, and Nell Newman arrive at the SeriousFun Children's Network event at the Dolby Theatre, May 14, 2015, in Los Angeles. A new lawsuit filed Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, has exposed a deep rift between two of Paul Newman's daughters and the late actor's charitable foundation, over how it gives away some of the millions of dollars it makes off the Newman's Own line of food and drink products. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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(1,454 posts)(and don't they look like their parents ?) and the Foundation. It is disturbing that good hearted folks set up these philanthropic organizations only to have Boards of Directors play shenigans with the original intent of the founder. Paul Newman would NOT be happy about this.
One can only hope that Susan and Nell prevail in court.
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