Hollywood legend Dennis Hopper’s estranged wife is reportedly launching a legal battle to claim a massive chunk of his estate.
The Easy Rider screen icon was still married to Victoria Duffy when he died on Saturday morning after losing his long battle with prostate cancer.
According to TMZ.com, Hopper, 74, had been desperate to divorce her in the months before he passed away.
But the official split was not final when he died at his home in Venice, California, surrounded by relatives.
Now it has emerged that the pair had signed a pre-nup ahead of their 1996 wedding, which entitled Duffy to 25 per cent of Hopper’s hefty fortune as well as a $250,000 insurance payout.
Duffy was only allowed to receive the settlement if she and Hopper were still married and living together at the time of his passing.
Although the pair were separated, they were still married when he died and lived in separate houses on the same sprawling property.
Sources told the website that Duffy is planning to argue that since she was still on the property, she was living with Hopper – and is therefore entitled to the hefty sum.
Source: Splash News