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Brando's Ex-Assistant Settles Suit
Yes, they made her an offer she couldn't refuse.
A onetime personal assistant to Marlon Brando has settled the civil suit she filed against the executors of the late Godfather star's estate, accusing them of trying to defraud her of money she claims Brando set aside for her.
Per court documents filed Dec. 22, Hollywood producer Mike Medavoy and his brother-in-law, Larry Dressler, agreed to pay Angela Borlaza $125,000 to settle claims that the pair manipulated the legendary actor into freezing Borlaza out of his will.
In her lawsuit, Borlaza asserted Medavoy and Dressler took advantage of the 80-year-old two-time Oscar winner's "incapacitated, confused, medicated and non-communicative" condition to get him to sign documents making them the trustees of his $20 million estate before he died of lung failure July 1, 2004.
She also alleged Medavoy and Dressler wrongly evicted her from a home Brando bought for her. (She claimed Brando had not had a chance to transfer the title into her name before he passed away.)
Additionally, she insisted Brando had planned to give her his 1992 Lexus and a sizable severance package.
Borlaza's suit sought $627,000 in actual damages, which was the value of the suburban L.A. home, plus an additional $2 million in punitive damages and unspecified compensatory damages.
With the help of a third-party mediator, however, attorneys for both sides resolved the dispute amicably and settled all claims on Dec. 20. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rita Miller signed off on the deal six days later.
Borlaza's counsel, Joel Pipes, declined to discuss the terms of the arrangement Thursday; Charles A. Larson, a lawyer for Medavoy and Dressler, was unavailable immediate comment.
Borlaza began working for Brando in 1995 as a cook and soon became his caretaker; per her 40-page complaint, Brando eventually elevated her to coexecutor of his estate.
But longtime friends of the Hollywood icon contended she isolated the ailing Brando from visitors.
In any event, Borlaza and Brando's original trustees personal assistant Alice Marshak and business manager Joe An Corrales were replaced by Medavoy and Dressler.
Corrales filed her own $3.5 million lawsuit claiming breach of contract and sexual harassment. She reached an amicable settlement with Medavoy and Dressler last February.
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