Gary Coleman’s burial off indefinitely as family feuds


The sad life of Diff’rent Strokes actor Gary Coleman looks to be getting some depressing footnotes as his estranged ex-wife Shannon Price and his estranged parents, whose alleged looting of Coleman’s fortune is a plot point of popular Broadway musical Avenue Q, battle over the final resting place of the child star’s body.

Coleman sued his adoptive parents, Willie and Edmonia Coleman, in 1993. He was awarded $1.3m after a judge ruled that the Colemans has misappropriated his earnings while he was still a minor. Coleman’s parents countersued for defamation. The status of Coleman’s relationship with former wife Price at the time of his death remains unclear, although they were living together at the time of his death.

Price has come under significant media scrutiny after the diminutive actor’s early death, and a 911 call was widely published wherein Coleman’s wife repeatedly refuses the 911 operator’s suggestions that she assist him as he lay injured and bleeding of injuries that would ultimately lead to his death on the floor of their shared home. Price said:

“I had my husband go make me some food downstairs, he just got home and I heard this big bang,” Price says in the call. “His head is bloody. There’s blood all over the floor. Send someone quick because I don’t know if he’s going to, like, be alive.”

The operator requested that Price render aid to her ex-husband or check on his status, but she declined several times, claiming that the sight of blood would cause her to have a seizure.

TMZ says Price is now feuding with the Colemans over how to handle Gary’s remains:

Shielia Erickson, the rep for Gary’s ex-wife, tells us Shannon Price is fighting with Gary’s parents, so the funeral can’t go forward.

Shielia claims Shannon is the executor of Gary’s will and has the power to make all decisions regarding the funeral and Gary’s estate.

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