{"id":31041,"date":"2015-12-15T09:46:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T09:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/media-mogul-redstones-ex-girlfriend-alleges-forgery-in-u-s-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2015-12-15T09:46:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T09:46:15","slug":"media-mogul-redstones-ex-girlfriend-alleges-forgery-in-u-s-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/media-mogul-redstones-ex-girlfriend-alleges-forgery-in-u-s-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Media mogul Redstone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ex-girlfriend alleges forgery in U.S. lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sumner Redstone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s former girlfriend, Manuela Herzer, filed a new lawsuit in California on Monday alleging that the 92-year-old media mogul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s signature was forged on a document removing her as his health care agent.<\/p>\n<p>              Redstone is the controlling shareholder of Viacom Inc and CBS Corp and Herzer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s allegations, in lawsuits filed in the past few weeks, that he is no longer mentally competent to run the companies has concerned investors.<\/p>\n<p>              Redstone had picked Herzer to make his healthcare decisions in case he was not able to but removed her as his health care agent on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<p>              On Nov. 25 Herzer filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court raising questions about Redstone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mental competence and requested he be medically examined immediately.<\/p>\n<p>              The court on Nov. 30 rejected Herzer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s request but allowed the case to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>              One of the documents Redstone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attorneys filed during the case was the agreement signed by Redstone in October removing Herzer as his health care agent.<\/p>\n<p>              Following the removal of Herzer as healthcare agent, an agreement was signed in November allowing her to remove her belongings. <\/p>\n<p>              \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sumner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s signature on this so-called agreement does not even remotely resemble other signatures of his that I have seen,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Herzer said in court documents filed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>              Herzer alleged \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a fraud was perpetrated upon this court\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and again requested that Redstone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health be checked before a court hearing in January.<\/p>\n<p>              Redstone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attorney Gabrielle Vidal said the agreement was not forged and that Herzer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new request was an attempt to get the judge to have Redstone medically examined immediately, and that the court should reject the request.<\/p>\n<p>              The judge agreed on Monday to hold a hearing on the issue on Monday, Dec. 21.<\/p>\n<p>              Viacom and CBS did not immediately reply to emails seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>              Viacom Chief Executive Philippe Dauman, who replaced Herzer as Redstone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health care agent, said last week that the media mogul was in charge of his own healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>              Redstone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s physical and mental health have been the subject of intense debate and speculation, partly as he has been largely absent from his companies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 earnings calls lately, whereas he previously kicked off the calls with lavish praise for his executives.<\/p>\n<p>              The case is in re: Advance Health Care Directive Of Sumner M. Redstone, Superior Court Of The State Of California County Of Los Angeles Central District, No. BP168725.<\/p>\n<p>               (Reporting by Arathy S Nair and Kshitiz Goliya in Bengaluru and Jessica Toonkel in New York; Editing by Savio D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Souza, Diane Craft)<\/p>\n<ul id=\"topics\" class=\"hidden\">\n<li>Company Legal  Law Matters<\/li>\n<li>Business<\/li>\n<li>Sumner Redstone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sumner Redstone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s former girlfriend, Manuela Herzer, filed a new lawsuit in California on Monday alleging that the 92-year-old media mogul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s signature was forged on a document removing her as his health care agent. Redstone is the controlling shareholder of Viacom Inc and CBS Corp and Herzer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s allegations, in lawsuits filed in the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}