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Chadwick Boseman’s Widow Accuses His Brothers of Trying to ‘Smear’ Her

Ledward says she has fully complied with the court order and gave Boseman’s family more than required, including $300,000 to his nephews.

  • On Thursday, Taylor Simone Ledward filed court documents slamming her late husband's brothers' petition as a "public-relations stunt to smear Simone in the tabloid press," with her attorney Adam Streisand writing she exceeded her legal obligations.
  • Derrick and Kevin Boseman petitioned the court earlier this month seeking to remove Ledward as administrator, claiming she failed to distribute Chadwick's remaining assets nearly six years after he died without a will.
  • Court documents showed Ledward distributed $151,558 from Bank of America, company shares valued at $3.4 million, and $75,000 each to Derrick and Kevin, plus more than $300,000 of her own funds gifted to Derrick's four children.
  • While defending her management, Ledward objected to the proposed replacement administrator Jason Rubin, citing "serious allegations" against him in other cases, and highlighted her work establishing the Chadwick Boseman Foundation for the Arts.
  • The brief marriage between Chadwick Boseman and Ledward began August 21, 2020, six days before his death at age 43 from colon cancer, which he battled since his 2016 diagnosis.
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Chadwick Boseman's estate has once again become the subject of a legal dispute, and this time his widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, responded vehemently. According to new judicial documents obtained by Page Six and protocoled on Thursday in a Los Angeles court, the woman who was next to Black Panther's star during her last years harshly criticized the lawsuit brought in July by Derrick and Kevin Boseman, the actor's older brothers, who seek his remo…

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Taylor Simone Ledward, the widow of the late actor Chadwick Boseman, is challenging an attempt by his two older brothers, Derrick and Kevin Boseman, to remove her as administrator of the Black Panther star's estate. In new court documents filed in Los Angeles, Ledward denies the actor's brothers' accusations that she failed to properly distribute his estate under a 2022 court order. Her defense says the allegations are false and the court procee…

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TMZ broke the news in Burbank, United States on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
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