A Utah judge ruled Gary Coleman's ex-wife was not his common-law wife; his ashes were locked in a vault

Gary Coleman starred as a child in "Diff'rent Strokes." In 1989 he sued his adoptive parents and a former adviser for misusing his trust fund and won a $1.28 million judgment in 1993^†. He married Shannon Price in 2007, and they later divorced. In May 2010 he fell at his home in Santaquin, Utah, and died two days later of a brain hemorrhage at a Provo hospital, at 42. Three documents competed for his estate. A 1999 will asked for a wake run by people "who have had no financial ties to me." A 2005 will named Anna Gray, a friend and executive of his company, as executor, left her everything, and asked for no funeral. Price filed a handwritten 2007 document that would give her the estate, and claimed she was his common-law wife. A judge appointed lawyer Robert Jeffs special administrator. Jeffs had Coleman cremated and locked the ashes in a vault. In May 2012, Fourth District Judge James Taylor ruled Price had failed to prove a common-law marriage. His 18-page decision said she had been publicly abusive to Coleman, had an open relationship with another man, and had been barred from the home by court order. Gray said no money was left and that the bank had foreclosed on the house. "What I want are his ashes," she said. Where the ashes are now has not been publicly confirmed^†.