Last week, we heard about how Dennis Hopper, who is reportedly “on his deathbed”, filed from divorce from his wife of 14 years, Victoria. Victoria is his fourth wife, and they have a six-year-old daughter together, daughter Galen. Hopper also has three other adult children, including his oldest daughter Marin, who is 47 years old, and a single mother. Marin and her kid live in Hopper’s Venice home and Marin used to work for her dad, booking Hopper’s appearances. Apparently, according to “sources”, it is Marin who instigated the divorce filing against Victoria, her stepmother. Hopper – who reportedly only has “weeks” to live – was driven to the divorce lawyers and had him sign documents even though he “has no idea what is going on.” So… yeah. At this point, the whole thing is looking like a huge fight over money.
As Dennis Hopper is dying from cancer, a family confidant tells Huffington Post his eldest daughter Marin is engineering a divorce and sending lies out to the media to try and bleed extra millions out of his sizable estate. Hopper, who has weeks to live, is currently heavily medicated at his Venice compound. Despite reports, the friend says he is not at the hospital.
Last Thursday the actor filed from divorce from his wife of 14 years Victoria, the mother of his six-year-old daughter Galen. He has three older children.
“It’s so horrible, Dennis is at home, Victoria and Galen are living there as well, and Marin is pulling her father out of his bed and driving him to the divorce lawyers. The poor guy has no idea what is going on,” a friend of the couple has told Huffington Post. “Even his lawyers are telling people he is on painkillers and is essentially sleeping all the time.”
He filed the divorce papers even though his lawyers would not let him sign other paperwork at the same time, telling one family member that he was in an altered mental state due to the copious amounts of drugs he is taking.
He is reportedly delirious and having difficulty speaking.
Marin, who lives rent-free at her dad’s Venice compound with her child, makes a living booking appearances for her father.
One family friend told Huffington Post that Hopper delayed the start his chemo last fall so he could fulfill a paid gig Marin set up in Europe.
Friends believe that given his condition, Marin is the one behind recent statements that have gone out in the actor’s name. Dennis has not been seen in public for weeks and is not up to taking calls.
There are also a number of false claims regarding the estate plan that is in place.
“Victoria gets 25% of the estate unless Marin can push through this last minute divorce. Victoria has never asked for more and has no plans to contest the will. However, if the divorce is finalized, Victoria and Galen [get] nothing.”
Apparently the marriage rapidly deteriorated in recent months. Dennis changed his will last summer, right around his last cancer diagnosis, and started exhibiting “increasing signs of erratic behavior.”
The family friend continues, “Multiple police reports were filed. Dennis denied therapy to Galen and threatened to kill Victoria if she took their daughter to a therapist,” and “three unlocked guns with safeties house were found in the house and turned over to police.”
“Marin has always hated Victoria,” the family friend explained to Huffington Post. “If she can get her father to reject Victoria on his deathbed, and get more money in the process, she’ll be the happiest woman in Los Angeles.”
[From The Huffington Post]
This is so sad. I get that with a family of this fame and fortune, there are usually going to be fights over the estate, but for goodness sake! They’re literally fighting over his dying body. As some commenters pointed out in the previous thread, Hopper has a reputation as quite the Hollywood son of a bitch, but even I don’t think he deserves all of this. It’s tragic, and it’s strange that everyone is letting Marin run everything. Here’s my question – when Hopper realized how little time he had, did he sign over power of attorney to anyone? I really don’t think marin has power of attorney, or she wouldn’t have to drag her dying father to the divorce lawyers, right?
Marin is the woman on the left, Victoria is the one on the right:
It is absolutely despicable for someone to be doing this to a dying man!
Money, indeed, is the root of all evil! Particularly in people!
Greedy bitch!
And once again in these instances, THE LAWYERS are going to walk away with EVERYONE’S money
Why haven’t they (the courts, social services, SOMEONE) appointed a conservator to protect his property? It is inappropriate for someone in that state to sign any legal documents, and the lawyer who drafted the papers should not have been involved with that. Gosh this world is filled with crappy people!
Ugliness all around… let the man die in peace, bitches.
What a bitch. You can get a real sense of her black heart when you think about the fact that she was slated to receive money, maybe not ALL the money, but some anyway. It’s not like Dennis Hopper is broke, and she’s obviously been receiving his support for years. Her father is dying and the only thing she can focus on is robbing her step-mother and SIX YEAR OLD HALF SISTER?!
If true, it is truly disgusting. It also seems so blatantly obvious what Marin is doing that I can’t imagine it would be hard to contest it and win. But @ Sigh, you’re right, it will be the lawyers who end up with it all anyway.
Even if a divorce was pushed through, he is still the daughter of a 6 year old kid and would be responsible for support, so I can’t imagine they will get nothing.
That snotty-bitch daughter should be cut out of the will.
People like her really piss me off.
Dennis should be glad to have his wife with him at the end and if she’s put up with him, she deserves the money and the daughter needs to get a job.
I was wondering which was the wife, which was the daughter.
In those pictures, it looks like the three of them got hit with the seniors clothing department at Sears.
Hahahaha Snowball, that was classic and accurate!
Well if Hopper is one Hollywood son of a bitch, the branch sure didn’t fall away from the tree. His daughter is evil and greedy. Maybe there is another side to this story that I’m not getting here.
Well Snowball I will give Victoria a break where her clothes are concerned bc she is obviously pregnant in that photo and maternity clothes are not always very stylish.
Lots of speculation in the media.
Hopefully he has a trust and proper estate plan, regardless of any impending divorce. Rest easy all- there is no way his lawyers (even if they are slimy shysters in cahoots with the daughter) would draft a divorce or allow any changes to the estate if he were truly incapacitated.
Even the most unethical lawyers would not risk losing their licenses over what will surely be contended in court.
Edit: if the divorce was filed, it could not have been at the advice of the lawyers and it can be challenged. Might not affect the estate plan anyway.
I had this happen in the reverse with my father. Supposedly my father drove himself to an attorney and 3 days before he passed with Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type he completely changed his will to specifically exclude his children and only benefit his wife…
Tacky, tacky, tacky. But as somebody said upthread, the lawyers will walk off with most of it.
Oh my goodness….the poor man.
The more reports I read on celeb*tchy tonight, the more I feel disgusted by human nature
What the F has happened??? Everything seems to shallow & superficial & this story is so horrible I really hope its not true…
hey its lala land so it prob is. Please dont let this way of life and serious lack of morals and respect seep into our mere mortals life anymore than it already has
The wife is there……..and she is entitled. The kids are just blood sucking do nothings. So sad this to happen on their father’s deathbed. Beware of karma. It is a bitch.
Additionally………why is it so necessary for these Hollywood types to have the “younger” wife etc. and in the end toss her aside??? Where the hell was his character status of what was important in his life? All he seemed to care about (I guess) was the arm candy that made him (supposedly) look good. If he didn’t like/respect the woman, why did he marry her and father a child with her several years ago?? Let’s all get over it……….she is his wife and entitled to whatever in spite of whatever the leech type hanger on children/ex wife might think.
I get the feeling Marin wants to throw her stepmom and half-sis out of the house the second Daddy kicks the bucket. She sounds just like her father. He apparently taught her well.
I don’t see the California courts allowing the wife and child (especially the child) to be left with nothing. That child has to be taken care of until she is 18, no matter what happens between the adults. She will have to have a place to stay, food to eat and all her needs taken care of. So, Ms. Marin is not going to get all of Daddy’s money, no matter how hard she tries. Also, I don’t think a divorce could become final before Hopper dies, unless Marin insists on keeping him on life support for as long as he’s needed.
The most important question for me – why the heck does a 6 year old need therapy? Some awfully shady things going on here, beyond money.
This source of this story is clearly the wife or someone acting on behalf of the wife, so I think it’s a little hasty to talk about the daughter’s “black heart.”
Whoever wrote the HuffPost story has clearly picked a side, and my guess is that there is more than one side to this story.
Here is the same story as told by the other side whoever that may be in this case
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1560860
the link was posted on the last Hopper thread by someone
Here are some exempts
The situation in the Hopper household had been under something of a cloud for sometime, with the husband complaining that his wife was indifferent to him. It was exacerbated when the current Mrs. Hopper, Victoria, wife number five, presented the husband with a list of the art works in the household that she believed belonged to her.
On hearing his wife’s request, evidently surprised by her claim of ownership, while getting his affairs in order, he removed her as executrix of his estate, and replaced her with his eldest daughter Marin Hopper (with his first wife, Brooke Hayward).
During this time, about a week before Christmas, Mrs. Hopper allegedly hired a truck and with the assistance of (her) relatives, removed a number of pieces of art (those which were on her List of personal possessions), household items, as well as the sterling. As well as herself and the daughter. For destination unknown to the husband.
Over the Christmas holidays, he had to be hospitalized again. His wife returned.
After the business of the removal of possessions last month, and the disappearance of the wife and the daughter to places unknown for several days, Mrs. Hopper returned to the domicile and, it is said, apologized to her husband.
The removed possessions have, as of this telling, remained removed. Mr. Hopper is evidently very upset about this but since they are a married couple sharing the domicile, the only way he can discover their whereabouts or get them returned is by filing for divorce.
Is it bad that after reading all that, I’m still slack-jawed over the wife’s lips?? I can’t stop looking at them! What did she do to herself?
Psychologically, it’s common for people, upon the death of a relative, to attempt to get in money what they feel they didn’t get in love and attention from the dying/deceased person.
This may be what’s going on here — makes it understandable, though still not excusable. If Hopper didn’t initiate a divorce while he was healthy, it’s doubtful he needs his daughter to drive him to do it on his deathbed.
But isn’t it the law in California that a wife of more than 10 years is entitled to lifetime alimony? Isn’t that why Cruise dumped Kidman at the 9 year 11 month mark?
Regardless, if he really is that bad then all of his daughter’s actions should be easy enough to trace for the courts when it comes time to hear the case. Just like Brooke Astor.
One more thing from that article I linked above
After being dismissed as executrix of her husband estate Victoria Hopper allegedly went out and got herself a lawyer and demanded that the Will be read now. No waiting around. This unusual request was granted and it was done. From it, it was learned what she and each of the man’s children were receiving, her share being the largest. Fair and equal.
So far no one tried to cut her and her douther from their inheritance, it’s just about someone else being in control of the whole procees of executing Hopper’s Will. Quite reasonable move considering how she started removing and hiding stuff even before he’s died.
did someone photoshop Uma Thurman into this photo?
Truly unfair!!!
God, this witch sounds just like my half sister. The day after Dad’s funeral she rang me not to ask how my mother and I were doing, but to whine about not being happy with the will and declaring that we couldn’t have Dad’s house which he left to us.
Even though she married into a wealthy family, had a huge house on a huge block of land, five cars in the driveway and kids in private school. And she said she had dirt on people she would use if I didn’t go along with it. Even her husband would make a few threatening phone calls.
In the end we lost the house and most of Dad’s money paid for her lawyer even though her mother in law gave her $10,000 for a lawyer.
She never once showed any affection towards me the day Dad died or on the day of the funeral. She even ripped into me for crying when I first saw Dad in a hospital bed. She ripped into me again on the day of the funeral because of the way I was standing and how I was holding my dress. (head down, holding the dress off the ground out of the dirt). She truly is the coldest person I’ve ever known.
Anyway, sorry for the rant, stories about wills and feuding families always remind me of this stuff. Anyone with a will who knows the family are going to fight over it, should just go out and spend their money! Or better yet, leave it to charity. That will really screw the greedy f***ers over!
@N.D Thanks for posting the other side of the story.
I read in the Daily Mail that Hopper wants her to have what was originally in her pre-nup. 25 cents of every dollar. That way there’s more to divvy up between the rest of his kids.
If he doesn’t die before his Divorce comes through Victoria gets a lot more.- Jesus, that was a horrible sentence to type.
I don’t know what’s going on between them, but what a shitty thing to be going through at the end of your life.
I’m with you, Jazz. After seeing how incredibly ugly my father’s family became when my grandparents died, I told my parents that I don’t want to inhereit ANYTHING. They can leave everything to my brother. Or charity. Or to the cat. I’d rather keep my good relationship with my brother than have a few bucks.
I found out later that my brother told them the same thing. I hope they spend everything before they go, and that they have a great time doing it.
I’ve always had a morbid curiosity about what it’d be like to know you’re dying… I guess someday I might found out 🙁
Not surprising. In these situations the older kids and even the ex-wives can be really vicious against the current wife. Crazy what people will do for money when people are on their death beds or dead.