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family of Tony Hsieh, late CEO of Zappos have said a mysterious will made this year is a “scam” perpetrated by a “stranger” attempting to take advantage of their $500 million estate.
Hsieh died of complications five years ago at the age of 46. Causes of smoke inhalation in a house fire And his death was declared accidental.
The tech entrepreneur’s family said Hsieh did not leave any will and his estate is reportedly being managed by his father Richard Hsieh since then.
The family is now fighting over Hsieh’s estate after claiming to have received the will from a “complete stranger” who has “no relation” to the entrepreneur, according to a court filing.
In a filing received by KSNV-TV In Las Vegas, a man named Kashif Singh claimed to have found a purported 2015 will in the possession of his deceased grandfather.
“Scams come in all shapes and sizes,” the document says. “In this case, the scam is in the form of a document that is being passed off as the purported will of Anthony ‘Tony’ Hsieh.”
The court document further stated, “The document was allegedly found by a complete stranger several years after Tony’s death, in the possession of the stranger’s deceased grandfather, Peer Muhammad, a 91-year-old Pakistani man with no known relation to Tony.”
“The document was allegedly signed by Tony, but expert analysis shows that the signature has been forged.”
Hsieh’s family hired experts to examine a copy of the alleged 2015 will, who found that there were “numerous unexplained differences” in the handwriting, leading them to conclude that it was forged.
The family also claimed that there is no evidence that Hsieh was involved in the signing of the will in 2015, which makes no sense since he “kept an extremely detailed calendar of all his activities.”
The family’s attorneys have reportedly attempted to contact Singh, whose mailing address is in Wyoming, but never received a response. Wall Street Journal.
Hsieh ran the giant online shoe retailer Zappos, which was sold to Amazon for $1.2 billion in 2009, for nearly 20 years after joining it in 1999.
During the last year of his life in 2020, during the pandemic, Hsieh struggled with mental health problems and struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, according to WSJ,
A court hearing on the will is scheduled for Thursday in Las Vegas.