Gary Coleman’s Death Probe — Case Closed

No one murdered Gary Coleman … this according to investigators who finally closed the case into the actor’s untimely demise.

The decision to shut down the investigation comes just weeks after cops in Utah received and reviewed Coleman’s autopsy report — in which the coroner labeled Gary’s death an “accident.”

Indeed the autopsy concludes Coleman was in terrible shape before he died. A rep for the Santaquin Police tells us, “[Gary] was an accident waiting to happen. The last time I saw him he literally looked gray.”

FYI — no one was ever suspected of killing Gary … but his kinda-sorta wife Shannon Price did release an unsolicited statement denying any involvement in Coleman’s death.

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Gary Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price is furious that Gary’s estate is trying to sell the house they lived in together — and according to Price’s rep, they’ll “do everything possible to fight this in court.”

As we first reported, Robert Jeffs — the Special Administrator of Gary’s estate — filed a motion yesterday asking a judge to allow him to sell Gary’s Utah home and an adjacent lot for $324,000.

That’s not sitting well with Price’s rep, Sheilia Erickson, who tells TMZ that 24 hours before Gary died, he told her he “wanted [Shannon] to be taken care of” and that “everything goes to her.”

Erickson says, “Gary would want Shannon in that house. It was their house together.”

Shannon did live in the house with Gary, but the estate kicked her out in June. She is not named in Gary’s currently recognized will.

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Gary Coleman secretly took out a restraining order against his ex-wife a few months before he died.

The ‘Different Strokes’ actor – who passed away last month after suffering a brain haemorrhage – claimed in the documents that Shannon Price had moved back into his Utah home against his wishes while he was in hospital.

In the documents – which were filed under ‘John Doe Vs. Jane Doe’ – the actor alleged Shannon: “has shown a tendency to damage, destroy and steal my property and I believe she will continue to do so in my absence and while she is trespassing in my home.”

However, though the order was granted on February 19 2010, Gary never served it on his former spouse, who has said they were on the verge of remarrying before his death.

The actor’s former agent Robert Malcolm told RadarOnline.com: “The dynamics of their relationship were very unhealthy.

“This time he knew he needed to break away so he made sure she was not allowed in his home, but then he had feelings for her even though she was abusive and so he allowed her back into his home.”

Gary – who had his lawyer make an ex parte court appearance to get the restraining order, meaning all parties did not need to be present for the hearing – also explained he feared Shannon’s revenge, which is why he applied for the document under a false name.

He wrote: “I believe if she is given any warning of this pending order to require her to immediately vacate the home, she will cause more damage and destroy more irreplaceable memorabilia, documents, personal papers and other such valuables.

“I would therefore ask the Court to issue this order ex parte requiring her removal from the home and restraining her from going upon the premises of my home under any circumstances.”

He also requested police be present when Shannon removed her belongings.

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Gary Coleman’s closest friends are arranging a private memorial for the actor — but TMZ has learned Gary’s ex-wife and his parents will not be invited.

TMZ spoke with Kent Emmons and Anna Gray — two of Gary’s good friends who the actor had selected to help execute his will.

We’re told Emmons and Gray are organizing a private memorial for 15-20 of Gary’s closest friends — including Gary’s “Diff’rent Strokes” co-star Todd Bridges.

We’re told the group plans to honor Coleman with a night of “telling fun stories.” The event is expected to go down in California sometime in the next few months.

As for why Shannon Price and Gary’s parents won’t be invited — we’re told Emmons and Gray don’t feel it would be appropriat

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Gary Coleman will not have a funeral.

The late ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ actor will not be given a religious burial ceremony but will be cremated instead, as soon as his ex-girlfriend Anna Gray – who was named the main beneficiary of his estate in his 2005 will – is able to travel to his home in Utah.

This news has upset Gary’s ex-wife Shannon Price – who the actor lived with at the time of his passing – because she was named the sole heir in a 2007 handwritten add-on to the will. However, Anna’s legal team expects this additional note to be invalidated because Shannon was divorced from Gary at the time of his death from a brain haemorrhage.

Robert Jeffs has been appointed by a judge to oversee the estate dispute, and has also been ordered to organise the cremation as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, Shannon’s spokesperson has revealed the 24-year-old redhead still plans to celebrate Gary’s life with a memorial service, and is desperate to visit his body before he is cremated.

Shielia Erickson told E! News: “We would love to have a private funeral for family and friends. Shannon has been in bed all day. This is just too much for her. She did not see Gary today. She has been mourning him, though.

“She said to me, ‘Remember when Gary said to you, that he never wanted to be without me, I want to be with him after this life. I always want to be with him. I will never love again!’ She is such a kind person, that loves her Gary Coleman. They may have had issues at times. But they really did love each other.

Shannon has previously admitted she wants to scatter the late star’s ashes on train tracks, but a decision on this will not be made until the wills are clarified.

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Gary Coleman — Don’t Pull the Plug on Me!

TMZ has obtained legal documents signed by Gary Coleman in 2006 in which the actor specifically directed that he did not want anyone to pull the plug on him … if he was ever in that situation.

The documents were ironically filed by Shannon Price – Gary’s ex-wife — the person who authorized doctors to take Gary off life support last month.  Price has filed the docs in an effort to be granted control over the disposition of Gary’s body.

Among the documents filed today by Shannon is a health care power of attorney which Gary filled out in 2006.  Under the heading “Instructions for Health Care” — Gary checked a box in titled “Choice to Prolong Life” which states, “I want my life to be prolonged as long as possible within the limits of generally accepted health care standards.”

The other option Gary had — “Choice Not to Prolong Life” — was left unchecked.

In the docs, Shannon explains her decision to end Gary’s life saying she was “forced” to pull the plug. She does not explain why she felt forced.

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Gary Coleman — Little Pet Shop of Horrors

Gary Coleman was clear — he didn’t like animals — so imagine his dismay when he was forced to work at a pet store and put up with all that crap.

Gary took the job as part of a reality show pilot that was shot in 2008 and never aired.  A life coach made him take the job to improve his people skills and save his marriage to then wife Shannon Price.

It didn’t work so well.

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Gary Coleman to Wife: All You Care About is Money

Gary Coleman felt Shannon Price was motivated by one thing — the almighty dollar — and he said it to her face on video.

TMZ has obtained a clip from a pilot shot in 2008 – around the time Gary and Shannon were divorcing.  Gary and Shannon are spilling their guts to a life coach.

Gary tells Shannon, “All you care about is the money.”  He goes on to bitterly complain he’s been forced to take jobs he hated to support her … going to places he loathed, including Madison, Wisconsin (for the record, Madison is an awesome town).

The coach tells Gary, he needs a job and stat.  So, coach tells Gary he has a friend who owns a used car lot and he will hook Gary up with the owner for a post “Diff’rent

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Gary Coleman made another secret will, it has been claimed.

The late actor – who died after suffering a brain haemorrhage on May 28 – reportedly had a lawyer draw up a document which is “substantially different” from that detailed by papers from 1999 that were filed yesterday (08.06.10).

In addition, Gary’s ex-wife Shannon Price insists she has a legal document from 2007 showing “he wanted me to have everything“.

However, speaking about the newly-uncovered will, a source told RadarOnline.com: “This is not the handwritten codicil from 2007. This was created by a lawyer and it’s substantially different from the 1999 will.”

Under Utah law, because Gary and Shannon – who claims the couple were planning to remarry – were divorced at the time of his death, she is not entitled to anything from his estate.

The 1999 document appoints Dion Mial, 46, as executor of his estate, giving him the power to set funeral plans in motion, assess the value of the estate and decide how any money is to be paid out according to a trust.

However, it is expected further disputes will arise if the new document is produced.

The source added: “The new will should be filed within a couple of weeks at the latest. And then there is going to be an incredible battle over Gary’s estate.”

It is thought the actor didn’t leave much money when he died, with his main asset being his $315,000 home.

A date for the funeral is still to be set.

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Coleman Executor — Give Back Gary’s Truck!

Gary Coleman’s ex-wife has pilfered Gary’s truck, video game system, and lots of other stuff … and now the police are involved … so says the executor of Gary’s estate.

Dion Mial tells TMZ Shannon Price entered Gary’s digs and took, among other things, a 2005 Dodge pick-up, a cargo trailer, computers, telephones, musical instruments and furnishings.

Chief Dennis Howard of the Santaquin PD tells TMZ last night his officers accompanied a locksmith who changed the locks at Gary’s house, per Mial’s request.  And the Chief says, Monday night cops went to the house as Shannon’s family was loading Gary’s stuff onto a truck.  Howard says his officers convinced Shannon’s dad to return the load to Gary’s house, but Mial says that was just the tip of the iceberg — Shannon had already cleaned Gary out.

Mial tells TMZ he’s told Price she’s prohibited from entering the property again and is demanding the return of everything she’s taken, or else he’ll seek criminal charges.

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Gary Coleman Will — ‘Look Each Other in the Eyes’

TMZ has obtained a copy of Gary Coleman’s will, and it has an ominous directive in terms of disposing of Gary’s body.

According to the will, Gary wants his body cremated and wants his personal representative to “plan a wake for me conducted by those who have had no financial ties to me and can look each other in the eyes and say they really cared personally for Gary Coleman.

Gary bequeaths “my entire estate to the Trustee of the Millennium Edge Trust.”  He is not more specific.

Gary’s former manager, Dion Mial (who filed the papers) claims Shannon Price, Gary’s ex-wife, “has been removing personal property from [Gary's] home which has not been inventoried or accounted for.”

Mial is asking the judge to immediately appoint him special administrator of Gary’s estate so he can give the mortuary a directive to cremate the body.

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Hospital Knew Gary Coleman’s Ex Took Pics

Officials at the hospital where Gary Coleman died tell TMZ they were “aware” that Shannon Price and her family were “inside taking pictures” around the time Coleman passed away.

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Gary Coleman Hospital Pics — Sold

Just as we predicted, the pictures of Gary Coleman’s final moments among the living have been sold to a tabloid — but the photo taken after Gary died was not part of the deal … sources tell TMZ.

Sources say three of the four photos — which Gary’s ex-wife Shannon Price orchestrated  — may hit stands as early as this week.

One of the photos that sold — Shannon posing next to a bedridden Gary who is riddled with tubes.

As we first reported, Shannon will get a cut of the profits.

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Gary Coleman’s Wife Behind Gruesome Photos

TMZ has learned … Gary Coleman’s ex-wife is the mastermind behind the photos which show the actor in the hospital, bloodied, with tubes sticking out of his body … and there’s also a photo taken after he died.

We’re told Shannon Price had a production company shoot the photos — it’s the same production company that did the interview with her hours after Gary died.

Our sources say Shannon is featured in one of the photos.

We’re told the photos are being shopped around for five-figures … and Shannon is set to get a cut of the profits.

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Gary Coleman’s parents believe his death may have been caused by foul play.

The late ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ actor’s estranged parents Sue and Willie Coleman want to find out whether a “blunt instrument” was responsible for his passing on May 28 from a brain haemorrhage.

Their spokesperson Victor Perillo, who was speaking on behalf of the couple, said: “If I had the dollars, I’d hire someone to take another look at the body to see if there was any blunt force trauma to the head.

“How did he hit his head? Why was there so much blood?”

The 42-year-old actor’s lifeless body was discovered on May 26 by ex-wife Shannon Price – who he was dating again and believed to be on the verge of remarrying – after he experienced a fall at his home.

Police do not believe his death was suspicious and Shannon, 24, made the decision to turn off the life support machine after doctors warned her he would never recover.

Gary’s longtime friend and former manager Dion Mial is due to take the copy of the latest will – where he is named as the executor – to Utah county court this week.

Until then, funeral plans have been put on hold.

Sue and Willie – who had not been in contact with Gary for years – revealed they wanted their son to finally be laid to rest soon.

Their lawyer Frederick Jackson said: “From the start, Mr. and Mrs. Coleman’s intention has been to see that Gary’s wishes be honoured and that his affairs be taken care of properly. They wanted to do things the right way, and they urge those still involved to do the same. The Colemans ask that everyone please treat Gary with respect and kindness. They feel it is time for him to find peace and let his spirit go.”

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Gary Coleman planned to remarry Shannon Price.

The Diff’rent Strokes actor – who died aged 42 late last month after suffering a brain haemorrhage – wanted to wed Shannon again following a secret divorce in 2008.

Shannon’s agent Sheila Erickson said: ‘They never remarried but they were recently talking about getting remarried.

‘They were waiting for Shannon and Gary’s health to get better. In fact, Gary wanted to wed two weeks ago, but she wanted him to get better first.’

Erickson also confirms Gary had signed papers giving Shannon the right to deal with medical decisions on his behalf.

She told USMagazine.com: ‘Gary signed papers giving Shannon full authorization. Gary didn’t contact his parents at all since hw as in the hospital. He hadn’t talked to them since he was 17. Even at a critical time, the only one he wanted to be responsible for him medically was a person he referred to as his wife, Shannon.

‘Even though they were divorced, it wasn’t something that stopped them being together. It was just a piece of paper to Gary and Shannon.’

Gary had a series of medical setbacks throughout his life, most recently undergoing heart surgery and contracting pneumonia.

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Ex Mrs. Coleman — Gary Was No Lindsay Lohan

Gary Coleman’s ex-wife is taking a shot at Lindsay Lohan — saying Gary was a role model who could have taught Linds a thing or two about Hollywood.

Shannon Price blabbed about Lilo, Britney Spears, and life in the spotlight during an interview obtained by TMZ — one she taped just a day after deciding to pull the plug on Gary’s life support.

Price says she used to respect Lindsay because, y’know … “she had red hair” and was in “Parent Trap.”

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Gary Coleman’s Ex — All Smiles in the Wake of Death

Just hours after Shannon Price decided to pull the plug and end Gary Coleman’s life — the actor’s ex-wife was already smiling and posing for photos.

TMZ has learned the photos seen here were taken on May 29 — just one day after Gary died. The woman smiling with Shannon is Sheila Erickson — an agent who worked with both Shannon and Gary.

The photos were taken around the same time she sat down with a camera crew and did an interview about Gary’s death.

We’re told Shannon wanted to do the interview “to get her side of the story out” — amongst speculation that she may have killed Gary.

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Gary Coleman has a secret will, it has been claimed.

The ‘Diff’Rent Strokes’ actor – who passed away last Friday (28.05.10) aged 42 after suffering a brain haemorrhage – penned a document detailing who he wanted his assets distributed to after his death which is now in the hands of his close friend Todd Bridges.

Todd – who starred with Gary in ‘Diff’Rent Strokes’ – told Entertainment Tonight: “A friend of mine and I have paperwork, and we’ll bring it out soon, that will show what his wishes were and what he wanted.

“There’s a big fight going on with his parents and some other people involved, and after we bring this paperwork out, everybody’s going to shut up.”

Gary was estranged from his parents Sue and Willie for many years, and Todd has vowed to ensure none of his pal’s assets end up with them.

He added: “Gary had certain wishes excluding his parents. I’m not going to go against a dying man’s wishes. There’s a reason why he didn’t speak to them for 23 years.”

Meanwhile, Sue and Willie have hired a lawyer in a bid to get permission to bring their son “home”, arguing that since the actor was divorced from on/off partner Shannon Price at the time of his death, they are the legal custodians of his remains.

Their attorney Frederick Jackman issued a statement saying: “The Colemans don’t want to fight anyone. They’re hoping that by applying for Formal Probate, they can get through this process the right way.

“I don’t understand why so many people who knew Gary are being so secretive. The status of the divorce, whether or not anyone has a will, these are all issues that should be brought to the family’s attention immediately.”

In 1989 Gary sued his parents for allegedly stealing his fortune, something they have always denied.

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Gary Coleman’s Ex — I Can’t Afford His Funeral

Gary Coleman’s ex-wife had a passion … for getting pampered and spending money in Las Vegas –  and now she’s begging Gary’s fans to help her with his funeral costs.

In an interview shot the day after Gary’s death — and obtained by TMZ — Shannon Price talks an awful lot about money … bragging that she “bought high-end stuff” during trips to Vegas.

Price also says she’s hard up for cash now because Gary couldn’t get life insurance — due to his kidney condition.

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Gary C’s Ex: ‘He Would’ve Been Like Muhammad Ali’

Gary Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price is defending her decision to pull the plug on life support because she says she didn’t want Gary to be like Muhammad Ali or Terri Schiavo.

TMZ obtained an interview with Price … shot the day after Gary died.  Among other things, Price blurting out that she’s heard speculation that she pushed Gary and that caused him to fall and ultimately hemorrhage.  Price insists she didn’t push Gary – a weird statement, since no one had publicly accused her of that.

And Price fondly mentions that Gary did a lot for her — like buy her a car.

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Gary Coleman Police Report — ‘Nothing Suspicious’

The police officer who responded to Gary Coleman’s home on the day he was hospitalized claims he observed “nothing suspicious” about the scene at the actor’s home, according to the police report.

In the report, obtained by TMZ, Officer K Johnson from the Santaquin PD in Utah writes that when he first arrived to the home, Gary’s wife, Shannon Price, met him at the front door.

The officer claims Shannon directed him to Gary — but wouldn’t accompany him to her injured husband because she didn’t want to “see the blood on the floor.”

The officer also notes when he spoke to Gary — who was sitting on the ground with a towel on the back of his head — the actor couldn’t remember how he injured his head.

According to the report, Shannon told officers that the two had been in bed … when she asked Gary to go downstairs and fix her some food. Shannon claimed Gary fell shortly after leaving the room.

Eventually, the officer claims Gary was able to walk — with assistance — to a waiting ambulance which transported him to a nearby hospital.

Gary died two days later.

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Gary Coleman 911 Call — ‘Blood Everywhere’

TMZ has obtained the 911 call made when Gary Coleman fell last week at his home in Utah.

During the call, Gary’s wife Shannon Price tells the dispatcher there’s “blood everywhere” and that she doesn’t know what happened.

Gary is conscious during the call, but Shannon says he’s “like, not with it” — and tries repeatedly to tell him to put pressure on a cut on the back of his head … but he’s too out of it to follow her instructions.

During the call, Shannon tells the dispatcher she didn’t drive Gary to the hospital because she’s sick and has a fever.

Gary — who ended up suffering a brain hemorrhage — passed away on Friday after his wife Shannon decided to take him off life support.

He was 42.

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Gary Coleman’s parents are desperate to know what happened to the actor before he died.

Sue and Willie Coleman – the estranged relatives of the ‘Diff’rent Strokes‘ actor, who passed away on Friday night (28.05.10) after suffering from a brain haemorrhage and falling into a coma – are devastated they were unable to speak with the 42-year-old star before his passing and are anxious to know the circumstances surrounding his death.

Sue said: “We would’ve loved to have been there by his side at the hospital, to let him know we love him before he passed away. This is a shock to us. We loved Gary very much. We’re going to miss him.

“We’re not pointing fingers at anyone, but we need to know exactly what happened.

“We’re not angry. We’re just concerned. Did our son fall down the stairs? Did he fall in the bathtub? We need to have some closure on our son’s life.”

Gary was admitted to hospital following the fall at his home on Wednesday evening (26.05.10), but his condition was so bad his 24-year-old wife Shannon Price was forced to turn off his life support machine.

Although the pair had a tempestuous relationship – which saw Gary arrested in January over a domestic violence charge – police officers are convinced there is nothing suspicious about his passing.

Santaquin Police Chief Dennis Howard told People.com: “There was absolutely nothing suspicious about Coleman’s death. There is no criminal investigation going on.“

Gary and his parents had been estranged for many years prior to his death, and in 1989 he sued them for allegedly stealing his fortune, something they have always denied.

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