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A lawyer for the estranged wife of late Cubs great Ernie Banks told a probate judge Wednesday that Banks’ longtime caregiver has failed to turn over key financial information in the ongoing legal wrangling over his estate.
The development comes as Banks’ fourth wife, Elizabeth Ellzey Banks, is challenging a will signed by the slugger in October that left all his assets to his friend and caregiver, Regina Rice.
At a status hearing in a Daley Center courtroom, Thomas Jefson, an attorney for Banks’ wife, told Cook County Judge James Riley that Rice hasn’t fully responded to a court-ordered citation to discover all assets in Banks’ estate.
The missing information includes a joint bank account that Rice had with Banks when he was alive as well as a trust account set up in the slugger’s contested will, Jefson said. He said they also want information about “certain signed items” of Banks’ that were recently sold through a website that Rice controls.
“We want receipts,” Jefson said.
Rice’s attorney, Linda Chatman
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Ernie Banks
American baseball player (1931–2015)
Baseball player
| Ernie Banks | |
|---|---|
Banks in 1969 | |
| Shortstop / First baseman | |
| Born:(1931-01-31)January 31, 1931 Dallas, Texas, U.S. | |
| Died: January 23, 2015(2015-01-23) (aged 83) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| September 17, 1953, for the Chicago Cubs | |
| September 26, 1971, for the Chicago Cubs | |
| Batting average | .274 |
| Hits | 2,583 |
| Home runs | 512 |
| Runs batted in | 1,636 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Induction | 1977 |
| Vote | 83.8% (first ballot) |
Ernest Banks (January 31, 1931 – January 23, 2015), nicknamed "Mr. Cub" and "Mr. Sunshine", was an American professional baseball player who starred in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop and first baseman for the Chicago Cubs between 1953 and 1971. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977 in his first year of eligibility, and was named to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999.
Banks is regarded as being one of the greatest pla
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Just months before he died in January of a heart attack, Cubs great Ernie Banks purportedly transferred the potentially lucrative rights to his name and likeness to a private trust controlled by his longtime caregiver, according to recently filed documents in the ongoing battle over Banks’ estate.
The filing by lawyers for Banks’ estranged wife provides a glimpse into the largely behind-the-scenes wrangling over the slugger’s assets that has played out since the bombshell revelation that Banks had cut his family out of a will signed in October and left everything to his caregiver, Regina Rice.
In a court-ordered report on Banks’ assets made public Monday for the first time, Rice said Banks signed over the rights to his name and likeness to a private trust that legally is not part of the estate and that she controls. He also transferred a joint Bank of America checking account he shared with Rice to the same trust.
Banks also was in debt to the Internal Revenue Service at the time of his death, paying off about $75,000 in back taxes, the report revealed.
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