Sumner Redstone's granddaughter backs mental competency lawsuit

Herzer had made like allegations in former legal filings .

Keryn Redstone said Shari became wilderness when Keryn refused to vary seats after Sumner Redstone asked her to sit contiguous to him at his 91st birthday party so she could service him eat. "Shari erupted and threatened to frustration me," Keryn Redstone said in the announcement. A spokeswoman for Shari Redstone did not response to a predication for comment.

Keryn Redstone said she last saw her grandpa in February and "he hardly sat there, complete into quadruplet, unaware of my mien." He has not responded to her entreaties to him since. Keryn is the miss of Sumner's son Brent Redstone , who had a old effective fight with his father.
Brent Redstone filed a case in 2006 in a dispute ended his share of the folk circumstances.

LOS ANGELES A granddaughter of Sumner Redstone wants to crossroads Redstone's ex-girlfriend in a lawsuit challenging Redstone's mental competency, court filings understand, an indication the media king's kinfolk is not linked in its ken of his setting.

Keryn Redstone, in a declaration filed in Los Angeles Superordinate Court on Tuesday, aforesaid her gramps became a "absorbed in his own dwelling" subsequently the onetime daughter, Manuela Herzer, was ejected from his dorm end October. Herzer is challenging her removal determination yr as Sumner Redstone's healthcare ingredient, expression the 92-year-old was not mentally competent to sword that conclusiveness. Keryn Redstone asked the court to accommodate her secern on the request, alongside Herzer's.

The suit is scheduled to advert run on May 6. Redstone controls a mass of the voting pains at Viacom and CBS, and shareholders let closely followed the slip for what it could jailbreak roughly his cordial terminus. The appearance of one of Redstone's kinsfolk members as a informant could lend Herzer's allegations more believability at run. Representatives for Redstone declined to comment.

In her court filing, Keryn Redstone likewise described a "troubled" affinity 'between her grandfather and his fille, Shari Redstone, who is in demarcation to be a key executive o'er the fortune of Viacom and CBS aft the sickly Redstone dies.
When Redstone was hospitalized in 2014, Keryn Redstone says, his miss pushed for a "do not quicken" order complete Redstone's vehement objections. It was settled out of court in 2007. (Additional reporting by Dan Levine in San Francisco; Editing by Bernard Orr)