Thursday, Aug. 21 marks the one year anniversary of legendary actor John Amos’ death. But if you thought the messy saga surrounding his passing was over, then boy are you in for a rude awakening.
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As we told you at the time, all the drama came from Amos’ children: daughter Shannon and son K.C. The two had been going at each other since the news of the elder Amos’ health and allegations of elder abuse made headlines back in June 2023. Things were further exacerbated when the Amos patriarch died in August 2024 and K.C. waited two months to reveal his passing to the world—and to his sister and the rest of the family in October.
What ensued in the immediate aftermath were more wild allegations that K.C. had deliberately withheld the news of his death, his death certificate, information on how he died and cremated the veteran actor “to avoid any potential investigation into the conditions surrounding his final days.” The elder Amos had previously denied any abuse claims and said that any “story about neglect is false and unmerited.” Meanwhile, K.C. was also arrested at one point for allegedly sending his sister “threatening and ‘concerning’ texts.”
Now, according to legal documents sent to The Root, Shannon has filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California against K.C. officially alleging elder abuse, financial fraud, and wrongful death. Per her suit, she alleges that K.C., their father’s former caretaker Belinda Foster, and close associate Eugene Brummett, all “systematically” exploited, isolated, and neglected the “Good Times” star during his final years, “ultimately concealing the true circumstances surrounding his death.”
Shannon also claims that her brother and Belinda enacted “financial fraud and mismanagement of assets,” including Foster’s “alleged falsification of
documents and creation of corporations with K.C. Amos for their personal benefit.”
What’s more is that she’s also alleging that her brother “obstructed John Amos’ wishes for his estate to benefit grandchildren Quiera Williams and Jhazz Williams and Shannon.”
Shannon is ultimately asking the court to freeze all estate assets, the dissipation of further funds and an audit of all financial activity dating back to November 2020.
“We should treat our elders with love and respect,” Shannon said. “What K.C. Amos, Belinda Foster, and Eugene Brummett did in the last years of my father’s life is unfathomable, cruel, and beyond my comprehension.”
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