Lawyers handling Marlon Brando's will have warned those named as beneficiaries to keep a united front or risk losing money to others claiming some of the dead actor's $21.6 million (GBP12 million) estate.
At least five or six potential creditors have reportedly informed the estate they intend to file claims, including Tahitian-based airline AIR MOOREA and JOAN PETRONE, a longtime friend who also worked as a personal assistant to Brando for many years.
And lawyer DAVID SEELEY tells news agency REUTERS, "I suspect there's going to be a whole lot more than that."
Seeley says Air Moorea will seek roughly $460,000 (GBP255,500) in business costs - which it claims Brando owed the company for flying tourists to the Tahitian atoll he purchased in 1966.
Petrone is thought to be seeking reimbursement for a $3,000 (GBP1,700) diamond and platinum ring that she lost down the drain while chopping up vegetables over the kitchen sink about 10 years ago.
Brando died on 1 July (04) at age 80.
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