The famous actor, Paul Newman, is in the news due to a lawsuit being pursued by his daughters. Many older folks, and some younger ones, remember the popular actor who appeared in many classic films.
Susan Kendall Newman and Nell Newman both have their own charity organizations, and they receive money from the “Newman’s Own Foundation” that goes to the daughters’ foundations, due to the last wishes of their generous father. However, over the past few years, the Newsman’s Own Foundation has reduced the amounts given to the daughters’ charities.
The Newman’s Own Foundation gets funds from the Paul Newman food products, including, famously, his line of popular salad dressings.
The daughters filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, August 23, asking for $1.6 million in damages to be given to their charity foundations from the Newman’s Own Foundation.
Paul Newman died in 2008. He started the foundation in 2005 and gave his name to it, and allowed his image to appear on the retail products, with the agreement that each of his daughters would receive $400,000 per year for their own foundations.
The daughters are afraid that the foundation is trying to exclude them from any of the profits derived from the Newman’s Own line. They say that the foundation is not following their father’s last wishes.
They assert that they are not looking for personal gains from the foundation, but are seeking what their father arranged to be given to charity.
“No one should have to feel that the legacy of a departed loved one is being dishonored in the way that Newman’s Own Foundation has disregarded the daughters of Paul Newman,” Andy Lee, a New York City attorney for the daughters, said in a statement.
“This lawsuit does not seek personal compensation for Mr. Newman’s daughters, but simply seeks to hold (Newman’s Own Foundation) accountable to the charities they have shortchanged in recent years and would ensure they receive an increased level of support in the future, in line with Mr. Newman’s wishes,” he said.
