Paulina Porizkova Might Be Planning To Fight Ric Ocasek’s Will

As you’ll recall, the details of Ric Ocasek’s will were revealed, and he specifically left his wife of 28 years nothing, and because “she has abandoned me.” Paulina then let it be known that she knew the details of Ric’s will the day after he passed in September and told an Instagram commenter that he didn’t feel abandoned. Now Page Six says that Paulina has hired a lawyer, and has filed documents that appear to show she’s preparing to petition Ric’s will.

Paulina reportedly filed papers yesterday, in which she granted representation authorization to her lawyer Linda Wank (lord be with her every time a teen boy discovers her name).

[Paulina] authorizes lawyer Linda Wank “to appear and act for me in the above entitled proceeding and to protect my interests in the premises.”

Paulina is technically entitled to an automatic one-third of Ric’s estate, which is what any spouse is entitled to under New York state law (which is where they lived). Despite what Ric said in his will, Paulina is still eligible for her third. She could also reportedly fight the validity of the whole will. Ric signed his will in August of this year, about 15 months after he and Paulina called it quits. They were never officially divorced. He claimed in the will that Paulina had abandoned him, but she claims she was still living with him, helping him recuperate after surgery, and she was the one who found him dead. So she could technically argue that he was lying in his will, and that it wasn’t valid.

Documents filed with the will claim he had $5.115 million in copyrights, personal property, and cash. Paulina would be entitled to a third of that, but none of the assets he placed in trust, like his Manhattan townhouse.

A legal expert tells Page Six that Paulina has a very good chance of walking away with her share, so long as there was no abandonment, adding that it’s a steep burden to prove abandonment. Especially since she says she brought him a cup of coffee the morning he was found. Personally, I think that’s an airtight argument. We don’t know what Ric and Paulina’s relationship was like in the month leading up to his death. But I think we can agree that fetching coffee for a sick person isn’t the action of an person who bails on someone. Real abandonment is finding a single-serve stick of Folgers Instant tied to the cat’s collar with a note that reads, “You’re going to have to teach Mittens how to get the mug and boil the water, because I’m out of here.”

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