Shannen Doherty spent her final months going through a divorce, completing the paperwork the day before her passing. However, it appears her challenges persist even after her death.
The estate of the Charmed star has recently claimed that her former husband, Kurt Iswarienko, has not fulfilled several stipulations of their divorce agreement finalized prior to Doherty’s death in July last year.
One key stipulation involved the sale of Doherty’s $1.5 million property in Dallas, Texas, with proceeds intended to be shared with her estate. Doherty’s legal team asserts that Iswarienko has ‘refused to list’ the property for sale.
The photographer Iswarienko is accused of not meeting his financial responsibilities to Doherty’s estate following her death at the age of 53, as per documents reviewed by People.
The documents suggest Iswarienko resides full-time in Doherty’s Dripping Springs home, implied by his attorney, Harlee M. Gasmer, who mentioned the 90210 star’s property as his client’s last known location when withdrawing from the case.
Additionally, he is accused of ‘refusing to return [Doherty’s] items of personal property.’
Iswarienko was also tasked with ‘producing his inventory’ of photographs of Doherty and was supposed to hand over all copies by September 2024. Current court filings indicate he is ‘now 14 months delinquent.’
The couple wed in 2011, marking Doherty’s longest relationship, but she initiated divorce proceedings in 2023.
This followed a few years after Doherty learned her breast cancer, first diagnosed in 2015 and in remission by 2017, had returned and progressed to stage 4.
During the divorce process, Doherty alleged that her ex was intentionally prolonging proceedings.
In a court filing, she stated: “It is simply not right that Kurt be permitted to prolong our divorce in hopes that I die before he is required to pay me while he continues to live his life and shirk his responsibilities to his dying wife of more than 11 years.”
Her estate now claims he has not satisfied multiple terms of the divorce settlement, including buying out her stake in a Mooney M-20 plane for $100,000.
Although Iswarienko completed this transaction, estate lawyers assert he ‘unilaterally withheld $50,274’ and has not made further payments.
Representatives for Iswarienko have been contacted for comment.