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Gene Hackman’s Children Are Not Named in the Actor’s $80m Will

today17 March 2025

Background

Gene Hackman’s will has been released, but it is uncertain to whom his $80m fortune will go to.

The two-time Academy Award winner left his entire estate to his wife of 30 years, Betsy Arakawa, who unfortunately was also found dead alongside her husband. The pair were found deceased in their New Mexico home last month, with Arakawa passing seven days before her husband.

Legal experts have said that Hackman’s fortune could potentially fall to his children, despite not being named in the will. He shares three children with his late ex-wife, Faye Maltese: Christopher, 65; Elizabeth, 62; and Leslie, 58.

#SHOWBIZ: Gene Hackman had likely been dead nine days when found

*Cover image via AP Photo/Mark J Terrill

Written by: Farah Qistina


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