The lady whose house caught fire during Anne Heche’s deadly vehicle accident has filed a $2 million lawsuit against the late actress’ heirs.
Lynne Mishele alleged in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on November 9 that she and her dogs were nearly killed in the August 5 incident that resulted in Heche’s death at the age of 53.
Mishele said in court records that Heche’s automobile “barreled through the front of her house and deep into its interior” before coming “to a halt just feet away” from her, her two dogs and her tortoise.
Mishele went on to say that the event left her “completely traumatized, unusually startled by hearing loud noises, plagued by nightmares and flashbacks of the incident, terrified of walking outside, and, atop that, without a place to live.” She also claimed that the fire caused by the crash destroyed “an entire life’s worth of her personal possessions.”
After the event, Heche was initially stable, but she later lapsed into a coma and was ruled legally dead on August 12. Her son Homer Laffoon, 20, was given ownership of his late mother’s fortune the following month. Ex-husband Coleman “Coley” Laffoon shared Homer with the Another World star.
Since then, Heche’s family has been embroiled in a court struggle over her estate, with her ex-husband James Tupper alleging that Homer and his mother were “estranged” at the time of her death. From 2007 through 2018, Heche dated the Big Little Lies alum, 57. Atlas, their 13-year-old son, was born in 2009.
Tupper indicated in September that he did not feel Homer would behave “in his brother’s best interest.” Homer, according to the Playing for Keeps actor, has not seen or talked to his sibling since Heche’s death. “This is especially painful considering that Atlas is 13 years old, was with his mother on the day of her death, and has frequently sought out to Homer,” Tupper’s legal team stated in the filings.