Posted on 02/10/2013 5:48:17 AM PST by lowbridge
A man who died last summer willed his estate to two actors he never met, leaving them an estimated half a million dollars each.
Ray Fulk was 71 when he died last July. He lived alone on a 160-acre property in Lincoln, Ill. that he inherited from his father. He had no family or children.
"He was a loner, and a lot of neighbors didn't know who he was," Behle said.
What Fulk did have, though, was an admiration for actors Kevin Brophy and Peter Barton, whom he had never met. He admired them so much that he left his estate to be split between them.
Donald Behle, an estate attorney, said he helped prepare Fulk's will around 1998, and never saw him again. Behle had helped with the estate of Fulk's father, who died in 1997.
Why did Fulk will his estate to the two actors?
"He just said they were friends of his," Behle said, who knew they were actors but did not know Fulk had never met them.
Behle is not sure why he considered them friends, but the State Journal-Register newspaper of Springfield, Ill., says he was a fan of their television shows.
Barton is known for his role as Dr. Scott Grainger in the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" from 1987 to 1993.
Brophy was in the 1977 show "Lucan." Fulk had a poster from the show on the wall of his house, according to the State Journal-Register.
Behle is currently overseeing the sale of Fulk's property, which is appraised at $1,054,000. Behle declined to say how many bidders he has but said that a sale is "imminent."
Fulk also had about $230,000 in cash and CDs.
After Fulk died, Brophy and Barton received letters informing them of the bequest.
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but to people he never actually met, its still strange
Some things definitely make an impression. Ollie North was on the stand during my stay in the hospital. I still remember his lawyer pounding the table with the potted plant quip.
very true.... me missing Thanksgiving and that Garfield movie on TV was around 1982 or so
If they were still alive, the Three Stooges (or, at least Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp - never cared for the two “Joes”) would be in my will.
It's his money. Let him do as he wishes. We don't always need to explain ourselves.
Wasn’t it Bill Murry who did Garfield’s voice..
was he doing that way back then too?
It could have been, it was a long time ago though
Bingo!
or...would it be "bung-o"?
oh yeah, it’s very strange, but has to be a sad pathetic queen fantazing about these actors.
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