It’s late Lilo & Stitch star Daveigh Chase He left an estate worth $400,000 although he was said to have lived on the streets of Los Angeles before his death at the age of 35.
Probate documents received by Us Weekly show that Daveigh’s mother, Cathy Chaseasked the Los Angeles Superior Court to appoint an executor of her late daughter’s estate on Wednesday, July 8. Cathy clarified that Daveigh left behind $400,000 of her estate but “has no real estate.” (TMZ was the first to report the news.)
Cathy asked to be executor of her daughter’s estate because Daveigh was single and childless. The legislative proposal names Daveigh’s father, John Schwallieras a potential “descendant”. (Cathy clarified that John “maintains property in Las Vegas” but thought he currently resides at an unknown address in the Philippines.)
Us found a second motion filed with the court that places restrictions on how Daveigh’s estate money can be used. (This document was signed by Cathy on Tuesday, July 7.)
‘There are many other restrictions on your authority to deal with property. “You must not use any money from the inheritance unless you have obtained permission from the court or have been told to do so by a lawyer,” the instructions read.
The instructions continued, “Without a prior court order, you cannot pay the costs yourself or your attorney, if any. If you do not obtain the court’s approval when required, you may be removed as personal representative or may be required to repay the estate with your own funds, or both. You should consult an attorney regarding legal requirements, sale of property, property investment, property investment, property investment, property investment, or both.”
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for August 12 in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Before the trial, Cathy asked the court to approve a $400,000 bond.
Daveigh’s boyfriend, Roy Hernandezconfirmed his death to TMZ on June 17, he said at the time Big Love alum was battling meningitis and an infection in his blood that led to hemorrhaging before his death.
However, the Los Angeles medical examiner’s report obtained by Us on June 29 listed affected immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) as the main cause of Daveigh’s death. The medical examiner ruled the death natural while noting that chronic polysubstance use was a contributing factor. (The Cleveland Clinic defines polysubstance use as using more than one drug at the same time or close together.)
Daveigh Chase in August 2009.
Noel Vasquez/Getty ImagesOnce an in-demand actor, Daveigh almost disappeared from the spotlight in the mid-2010s, with concerned fans occasionally sharing photos of him on Skid Row in Los Angeles in recent years.
A source who was once close to Daveigh spoke exclusively Us that mutual friends reached out to the actor to help him years ago but he did not accept.
“People really loved him and cared about him and gave him help,” said the source. If you talk to anyone, everyone would ask about him and worry about him and care about him.
The insider added, “If I ever met someone on the street, I would ask them if they knew him and no one ever did.”
Daveigh Chase’s former manager is casting doubt on the authenticity of a GoFundMe page set up by her boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, after the actor’s death. “A man claiming to be Daveigh’s boyfriend has launched a GoFundMe page that is said to speak for Daveigh and his family, not his family and close friends. […]
Daveigh’s childhood friend Amy Castle he expressed his belief that “things could have been completely different” if the star had been willing to open up to others.
“Every time I talk to people about it, they just say, ‘It’s sad, it’s so sad,’ and I say it’s sad, and it’s sad, but it didn’t have to be this way,” Castle said. Us Wednesday, July 8 “I knew him [age] 9 to 16, and I can tell you with certainty a friend I knew would not have wanted his life to turn out the way it did. It’s impossible. I don’t have a shadow of doubt in my life.”
Castle suggested that Daveigh simply “didn’t have the support” he needed in the last years of his life.
“I believe that most of the time when a person does not have the necessary support to process … that the most understandable way to deal with it is to isolate or submit, often with drugs, [it] it can be food, sex, or anything that will give your brain dopamine and take you out of your subconscious,” he noted.
Daveigh first found fame as a child star with live-action roles Donnie Darko again Ring, before landing leading voice roles on Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and a Studio Ghibli film The Spirit Gone. His last film roles came in 2016 in a horror film Jack Comes Home and a thriller American Romance.
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