The Tax Implacations of Jerry Lewis’s Last Will and Testament

I read an article in the LA Times that said Jerry Lewis excluded his six sons from his will. Does that make him a heartless A-Hole, or was there a good reason for his mean-spirited penuriousness? We may never know, opined David Selig of Selig& Associates.

 

The article went on to sat that Jerry married Patti Palmer in 1944. And it is widely speculated that after wrecking Patti’s girlish figure with 6 naturally born large boned boys, Jerry decided to kick her drooping derriere to the curb. Accordingly, the couple divorced in 1980. Then 37 years later, the Nutty Professor encountered the grim specter of death.

 

The family may have gathered around some flinty old lawyer’s desk to hear the reading of the will, suggests Selig. And I don’t think Jerry’s progeny were laughing when they learned that the legendary funny man wasn’t lying – plain and simple, they’d been passed over and disinherited, remarked Selig ruefully.

 

In fact, Jerry’s last will and testament declared "I have intentionally excluded Gary Lewis, Ronald Lewis, Anthony Joseph Lewis, Christopher Joseph Lewis, Scott Anthony Lewis, and Joseph Christopher Lewis and their descendants as beneficiaries of my estate, it being my intention that they shall receive no benefits hereunder, " and there’s not a damn thing funny about that said Selig.  

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