A French woman sued Darryl F. Zanuck's estate for $15 million in 1980, saying his son had her cut from the will; the case ended in 1988 with her claim going to a university

Darryl F. Zanuck died in 1979 while living with his wife, Virginia. In 1980 Genevieve Gilles (reported in 1983 as Genevieve Gillaizeau) filed a $15 million claim against his estate. She said she was his live-in companion from 1967 to 1973 and that his son, producer Richard Zanuck, influenced him to remove her from his will in October 1973. The claim alleged undue influence; those were her allegations. In January 1983 UPI reported that Riverside County Judge Frank Moore dismissed a case brought by her; the article does not say which claim^†. On 23 October 1986 the Associated Press reported that Zanuck's daughter had filed a $10 million suit against Gilles. Wikipedia reports the will was settled on 8 January 1988, with Gilles agreeing that her claim on the estate would go to Yeshiva University in New York, which received a payment of $50,000^†. The Associated Press reported on the settlement on 26 February 1988. The Zanuck family's own account of the litigation was not found.