What’s behind Robin Williams’ family’s feud over his estate? — salon.com

Maybe it really is about the tux. Six months after Robin Williams hanged himself in his Bay Area home, the actor’s widow and his three children from his two prior marriages are now embroiled in an increasingly hostile and deeply personal battle over his estate. Is it a dispute motivated by greed – or grief? In a December San Francisco Superior Court filing, Williams’ widow, Susan Schneider Williams, claims that property was “unilaterally removed” from the couple’s home mere days after her husband’s death. It goes on to note that she “lost her husband through a shocking and emotionally charged event that occurred in their own home in Tiburon. Since the incident, she was not given time to grieve her loss free from the frenetic efforts to interfere with her domestic tranquility and even short-term continuity of her home with two high school boys.” Mrs. Williams, who married her husband in 2011, claims she wasn’t interested in items relating to his career, like “suspenders that Mr. Williams wore on the ‘Mork & Mindy’ show,” but had wished to keep the tuxedo he wore for their wedding, as well as “personal collections of knickknacks and other items that are not associated with his famous persona.”

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