One year after actor and Malcolm-Jamal Warner drowned in Costa Rica at age 54, his widow, Tenisha Warner, has filed a lawsuit against his mother. She is suing Pamela Warner in her role as successor trustee of the Warner family trust.
The suit, filed on the one-year anniversary of his death, seeks to recover at least $1.2 million from that family trust. The suit alleges, in part, that Malcolm-Jamal Warner did not “purchase and maintain a term life insurance policy on his life in the amount of $1 million” or on Tenisha Warner’s life, as allegedly stipulated in their premarital agreement.
“For the last year, I have attempted to privately settle my beloved husband’s complicated estate and honor his last wishes,” a spokesperson for Tenisha Warner told CBS News in a statement. “Malcolm had every intention to provide for our 9-year-old daughter and me. He was close to finalizing a new estate plan to replace the stale plan created in 1996 when he was 26 years old, 20 years before we met and well before we gave birth to our beautiful daughter. Sadly, he was unable to do so before we lost him.”