Shelley Duvall left behind a six-figure estate after her death at age 75; her longtime partner, Dan Gilroy, asked the court to award him the bulk of her wealth and property.
The actress, who cemented her place in film history with her portrayal of Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film The Shining, passed away from complications of diabetes in her sleep, and her death was announced earlier this month.
According to court documents obtained by InTouch WeeklyGilroy, 77, who was in a relationship with Duvall from 1989 until her death, told the According to the court, he was “interested in the estate and is Shelley’s surviving spouse.”
In his petition, Gilroy said that Shelley…Own property generally described as cash, real estate, personal effects and household items with a probable value greater than $100,000.
In a separate filing, Dan noted that he is Shelley’s surviving spouse “by an informal ‘common law’ marriage, which he asked the court to rule as such.”
Shelley Duvall left behind a six-figure estate after her death at age 75, and her long-time partner, Dan Gilroy, asked the court to award him the majority of her wealth and property (photo from 1990)
According to court documents obtained by InTouch Weekly, Gilroy, 77, who was in a relationship with Duvall from 1989 until her death, told the court he was “interested in the estate and is the surviving common-law spouse of Shelley – pictured in 2016.”
The actress, who cemented her place in film history with her portrayal of Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film The Shining, passed away from complications of diabetes in her sleep, and her death was announced earlier this month.
He said he would prove it(1) had an agreement to marry and demonstrated an intent to create a present, immediate, and permanent marital relationship, (2) cohabited together in Texas as husband and wife after forming the agreement, and (3) represented to others in Texas that they were married.
Gilroy – who has He also asked the court to appoint him administrator of the estate – he has asked that he be granted ‘‘100 percent community real property, 50 percent separate real property, and 100 percent community and separate personal property.’
Duvall had no children, but is survived by three brothers: Scott, Stewart and Shane. Gilroy has asked that the brothers be He was awarded 1/6 of the separate property.
Gilroy says Duvall owned the house where he died and 10,676 acres.
It has not yet been decided whether Gilroy will be named administrator of the estate, and his siblings have yet to respond to the petition.
Gilroy filed a request for a letter of administration on July 18. In contact reported Tuesday after reviewing court documents.
Gilroy included the actress’s full name, Shelley Alexis Duvall, in the probate documents he filed, the outlet reported.
The case had been classified as “dependent administration,” the outlet said, noting that the language used generally means the person who died did so without leaving a will.
In his petition, Gilroy said Shelley owned assets described broadly as cash, real estate, personal effects and household items likely worth more than $100,000. Photographed in Los Angeles in 1992.
Duvall died of complications from diabetes four days after his 75th birthday at the Blanco, Texas, home he shared with Gilroy.
Gilroy said The Hollywood Reporter In a statement, “My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend has left us. She has suffered too much lately, she is free now. Fly away beautiful Shelley.”
Gilroy and Duvall’s relationship began when they worked together on the film Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme, according to People.
The couple had resided together in the Lone Star State for more than a decade before her passing earlier this month.
Gilroy has a background in music, having been in the band Breakfast Club, best known for their 1987 single Right on Track.
Madonna had previously been a member of the band before leaving to start her own band called Emmy and the Emmys before finding stardom with her career as a solo artist in the mid-’80s, People reported, noting that Gilroy and Madonna dated for a short time.
Duvall said she crossed paths with Gilroy while working on Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme, a Disney Channel movie in which she played the role of Little Bo Peep.
She described Gilroy as “the most wonderful artist” in a December 1991 interview with the Los Angeles Times.
Gilroy and Duvall were photographed together in July 1994 at Universal City in Los Angeles.
The couple was photographed in December 1990 at a premiere in Beverly Hills, California.
Gilroy and Duvall moved together to Studio City, California, in the early ’90s with a menagerie of pets that included 36 birds, eight dogs, two cats and two goldfish, according to People.
They moved to Texas in 1994 due to a number of factors, including her brother’s struggling health, her exhaustion with Los Angeles, and the damage to her home following the Northridge earthquake of January 17, 1994.
“Those years in Los Angeles were fantastic, really fantastic,” Gilroy said. The New York Times in April. ‘And when we moved, after the earthquake, it was fantastic in Texas.’
Gilroy spoke to the newspaper about Duvall’s mental health issues over the past few decades.
“It got worse when she started to get scared of certain things, maybe she didn’t want to work. It’s very hard to pin it down to one thing,” he said. “She became paranoid and delusional, thinking she was being attacked.”
Gilroy told the paper that her controversial 2016 appearance on Dr. Phil caught him by surprise and that he found out about it after she did it from “people around town.”
“It didn’t do anything to the interview. It just put it on the map as an oddity,” he said.
