Arkie’s former boyfriend, Mr Christopher Kuhn, mentioned the one traces had been remnants of the tape he and Brett used to secrete it.
The 1991 will allegedly left cash to his mom, Beryl, sister, Mrs Wendy Hopkirk; bequeathed work to his old style, Scots Faculty, Bathurst, and to Miss Spencer; put aside funds for a scholarship for younger artists; and left the remainder of his property “in its entirety” to Arkie.
Janice Spencer leaves the courtroom.Credit score: Peter Rae
The 1989 will, against this, stipulated that his studio at 2 Raper Avenue, Surry Hills, be arrange as a museum, and directed that the remainder of his property be divided into 20 shares. Twelve had been earmarked for Arkie, three for Mrs Hopkirk, three for Mrs Beryl Whiteley and two for Miss Spencer.
Arkie claimed yesterday that the museum was a “divorce system” which Whiteley set as much as cease his former spouse from getting his work. She mentioned it was the concept of his divorce solicitor, Miss Carol Foreman.
By Easter 1990, when he visited her in London, her father instructed her the museum wouldn’t go forward, Arkie mentioned.
Whiteley’s one-time accountant, Mr Anthony Clune, mentioned the artist instructed him in November 1991 that he had “modified his will once more”. When Mr Clune steered at their assembly {that a} lawyer ought to have a look at the doc, Whiteley responded vigorously: “I hate solicitors. They’re at all times ripping you off.”
Arrange as a museum … Brett Whiteley in his studio.Credit score: Gerritt Fokkema
Mrs Hopkirk mentioned there was competitors between Arkie and Janice. When she noticed him on her farm close to Orange two months earlier than his loss of life, “he was exhausted, he was lonely, he was besieged by the … relationships with the ladies in his life”.
Miss Spencer, who joined Whiteley on the farm to have fun his birthday, mentioned Brett instructed her then that Arkie and Wendy had been “very hostile” to her. “They actually hate you and I’ve to cope with that hostility.”
He allegedly promised her: “If something occurs to me, you’ll be taken care of.”
Miss Spencer mentioned she had a key to Whiteley’s Surry Hills studio, as Mr Kuhn did.
Justice Powell requested if she had ever seen an envelope caught underneath the drawer within the kitchen. No, she had not.
I take it you didn’t take the doc? – That’s appropriate. I didn’t.
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Mrs Beryl Whiteley heard after her son died that there have been tales about one other will which Mr Kuhn was concerned with. However to her “it appeared just like the pair of them collectively on a drunken night time out”.
The listening to continues in the present day.
Though it was by no means recovered, Justice Powell thought of the 1991 handwritten will from 1991 because the one that the majority outlined his needs and, consequently, the massive winner was daughter Arkie who on Might 14, turned a multi-millionaire. The large loser was Miss Spencer who obtained a single portray – a nude of her entitled Afternoon in Surry Hills. Arkie Whiteley died from adrenal most cancers in 2001. Janice Spencer died of a heroin overdose in 2000.
