Barry and Honey Sherman’s son wants trustees removed from his parents’ estate
The trustees attempted to remove the Sherman son earlier this year, according to the Toronto Star
As the eighth anniversary of the murder of billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman approaches, the couple’s son has asked the court to remove two trustees from his parents’ estate.
According to the Toronto Star, in court documents filed with the Ontario Superior Court, Jonathon Sherman explained his reasons as being “grounded in alleged breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty and failure to act in the best interests of the beneficiaries.”
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The two trustees Sherman has asked to have removed are Brad Krawczyk, the Shermans’ son-in-law, and Alex Glasenberg, who operated the family holding company. (Lawyers for Krawczyk and Glasenberg have denied any wrongdoing.)
As the Star reports, this is only the latest in a series of back-and-forth manoeuvres regarding the pharmaceutical mogul’s estate. Krawczyk and Glasenberg attempted to remove the Sherman son as trustee earlier this year. A separate legal filing says the trust could be worth over $500 million.
The Star has previously noted friction among the Sherman siblings following the still-unsolved murder of their parents in December of 2017. One of Jonathon’s sisters, Alexandra, is said to have told homicide detectives that she believes her brother had something to do with the crime, which Jonathon has denied.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
