A photo of Gary Coleman lying unconscious on his hospital deathbed has been published on the cover of tabloid magazine The Globe. Pictured next to Coleman is his ex-wife, Shannon Price, who is facing the camera. Price and Coleman divorced in 2008 but were still living together in Utah at the time of his death last month. CNN reports that the executor of the actor’s will, longtime friend and former manager Dion Mial, accuses Price of selling the photo in an “ongoing desperate attempt” to profit from his death.
“These actions simply illuminate and magnify the truth that our gift of free will may, ultimately, relegate us to a long life of bondage and imprisonment that the life of a social and professional outcast, indeed, will bring,” Mial tells CNN. “May God bless Miss Price and her ‘free will.’”
Price’s publicist responded with a statement: “Dion, who claims to be a good friend of Gary, would know that Gary’s only wishes were to make sure that Shannon would be OK after he was gone,” the statement said. “So if Dion was a good friend he would be assisting Shannon, not taking all her money, to pay for his attorney and then use it to take everything from her.”
Coleman died on May 28 from a brain hemorrhage after falling at his Utah home. Coleman had signed an advanced health care directive giving permission to make any medical decision on his behalf to Price, who has said that she took Coleman off life support when she learned he would’ve been left in a vegetative state.
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This news disappoints me on so many levels.
Is it me or has this leech (no offense to Leeches out there) yowled about how Gary Coleman has been taking cared of her? She has no money to speak of… so whatever money she gave to this Dion fella was most likely from Gary’s estate. What a worthless piece of trash.
What, no link to the photo?
Thank goodness EW is classier than that!
I was just kidding. His wife should be stoned publicly for taking and selling these photos. What a soulless being.
I hope the Globe paid her a LOT of money. The universal condemnation she’s going to receive might be hard on her ability to earn a decent living in the future. Ugh. Just ugh.
Apparently, they paid $10K.
She could have gotten 100k because the pix were exclusive
The people that buy this particular edition of the Globe turn my stomach. That Shannon chick makes me sick beyond belief.
Who the heck buys the Globe anyway?
I don’t know which is worse, the fact that someone profited from the sale of the photo to begin with, or that the Globe (or anyone) was willing to purchase it at all.
I wonder who is worse, this woman or Kate Gosselin? I’m voting for Kate.
As much as I despise, Kate Gosselin, this redheaded witch is much worse. Joran Van der Sloot trumps all of ‘em.
May the people who took, sold and bought this picture burn in hell.
Calm down and get to your anger therapy session.
Agreed, it’s awful, and classless, but not the worst thing in the world.
Price now has a “publicist”? Interesting…..
Thanks, EW, for NOT putting in a link of this photo. No publicity should be given to the Globe or for the efforts of his EX-WIFE in selling this photo.
agree! but the sad thing is that people will buy the rag to see the pix
This is typical of the tabloids, they always publish death bed photos where they can get it. Even casket photos. As for his wife, Gary wasn’t a good judge of character was he?
No, perhaps he wasn’t, but since he isn’t around to defend himself, that doesn’t give that woman a license to sell out his dead body. Your comment is rude. Perhaps you mean to put her down, but you are putting down him as well, and he’s dead, and putting down a dead person is petty.
Tabloids have no respect for anyone living- Its not surprising they have no respect for the dead.
It’s
Very sad…I grew watching this man who also helped shape my life.R.I.P Coleman
It is just disgusting that any publication that wishes to be respectable, would buy such a macabre photo to support the desperate attempt of his leech wife to cash in on his passing.
You can tell she took the photo with her cell phone…..sh knew what she was doing
and what she was doing it for $$$$$