Celeste Holm's sons sued her fifth husband over a 2002 trust, the fight ran about six years, and she died in 2012 with a $13 million estate and a settlement forcing him out of her apartment

Celeste Holm won an Academy Award for Gentleman's Agreement. In 2002 her children helped set up a trust to protect her from exploitation, and her younger son, Daniel Dunning, was named trustee. She met Frank Basile, an opera singer about 45 years younger, in 1999 and married him in 2004, her fifth marriage. After the wedding Holm tried to void the trust and leave part of her inheritance to Basile. Her sons contested this in Manhattan Surrogate's Court. Court filings reported by the press included allegations that Basile schemed to take control of her finances and isolate her. Basile disputed that and said the trust was meant to keep him away from her money. A 2010 settlement had the trust pay Holm $12,500 a month; the money eventually ran out. It required Basile to leave her apartment within 60 days of her death and gave him one-third of the proceeds of its sale. Court records put her estate at $13 million; the apartment at 88 Central Park West was valued at $10 million. After her death, her children went to court to monitor his move; a lawyer filed, then withdrew, a petition on 26 July 2012. The legal costs are reported at millions of dollars^†.