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Tony Hsieh estate fight enters forensic phase over purported will
Fox News • • nation
Key Points:
- The estate battle over Zappos founder Tony Hsieh, who died from injuries sustained in a 2020 house fire, centers on a recently surfaced seven-page will dated 2015 that his family disputes as a potential scam.
- The alleged will includes a no-contest clause targeting Hsieh’s parents and brothers, threatening to disinherit them if they challenge it, prompting his father to demand a jury trial.
- The will was mailed anonymously to a Las Vegas courthouse and a trust attorney named as co-executor, who claims no prior contact with Hsieh; the sender, Kashif Singh, has not appeared in court.
- A Las Vegas judge appointed forensic specialist Gerry LaPorte to examine the document using ink analysis and other forensic techniques to verify its authenticity, with results due by July 24.
- Hsieh’s family has engaged their own expert, Larry Stewart, a former Secret Service forensic scientist, to counter the findings and support their claim that the will is fraudulent.
