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Final Scenes Near in Battle Over Estate of Filmmaker Toby Halicki : Courts: Debts have eaten away at the wealth. Widow says the five-year dispute has bankrupted her financially and emotionally.
ENCINO — She comforted O.J. Simpson after his wife’s murder. She was there when he bolted from the Encino home she shares with Simpson confidant Robert Kardashian. And she delivered an emotional, televised defense of the men she credits with saving Simpson’s life.
Now, like Simpson, Denice Shakarian Halicki is going to court in what promises to be the legal climax of a convoluted and bitter fight over the estate of her late husband, filmmaker and car-crash king Henry B. (Toby) Halicki.
Halicki, Kardashian’s tall, graceful fiancee, said the five-year legal dispute has bankrupted her financially and emotionally, leaving her dependent on Kardashian for everything from gifts to groceries to legal contacts.
“What has happened to me is a horror,” she said.
Her late husband’s vast, multimillion-dollar legacy included film and video rights to his B-grade cult classic “Gone in 60 Seconds”--which cost less than $100,000 to make and produced $40 million; about 200 acres of ranch land; eight acres in Palos Verdes, and a huge collection of vintage toys, cars and memorabilia, once repu
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Wallace Wyss is a native of Detroit. His family name sounds german because his father was born in Alchenstorf, Switzerland, near Bern. He grew up in Detroit, attended Wayne State University where he earned a BA in journalism and then went into advertising. During the mid-Sixties he was creating muscle car ads for Chevrolet, for cars like the Nova SS and Camaro Z/28. He then moved to California in 1969 to work for CAR LIFE magazine and later for Motor Trend.
In 1973 he began free lance writing and in 1977 wrote Shelby's Wildlife: The Cobras and the Mustangs. He currently contributes to the magazine Car and Driver, and has recently published a new Shelby (non-authorized) biography, and a Ford GT40 and the New Ford GT with Al Axelrod and Brian Winer as co-authors.
�The lawsuit that won�t go away.�
by Wallace Wyss
That�s what you could call the lawsuit from Mrs. Denise Halicki, a dead movie producer's wife who continues to sue Shelby over the year 2000 re-make of her husband�s film . the 1974 classic �Gone in 60 Seconds.�
The movie was about a car thief who steals a Mustang called �Eleanor�.
Martin Zimmerman,a Los Angeles Times Staff Writer in the
, March 1, 2008 Sunday edition talks abouthow the �crudely crafted in the flick found a cult a