[Update] Lorenzen Wright Found Dead...

[got shoes]

Originally Posted by toine2983

The ex-wife sure has a vivid memory all of a sudden.


Based on the time laspe from when Lorenzen's call was made and his body was found it's going to be hard to gather evidence to solve his murder I believe.

i know right. Every week is something new and crucial out of her mouth

 

[seymore cake]

Originally Posted by got shoes

Originally Posted by toine2983

The ex-wife sure has a vivid memory all of a sudden.


Based on the time laspe from when Lorenzen's call was made and his body was found it's going to be hard to gather evidence to solve his murder I believe.

i know right. Every week is something new and crucial out of her mouth

Yea... Somethings wrong with the math I know I can add y'all.

 

[seymore cake]

Originally Posted by got shoes

Originally Posted by toine2983

The ex-wife sure has a vivid memory all of a sudden.


Based on the time laspe from when Lorenzen's call was made and his body was found it's going to be hard to gather evidence to solve his murder I believe.

i know right. Every week is something new and crucial out of her mouth

Yea... Somethings wrong with the math I know I can add y'all.

 

[crobers 78]

"Ex-wife: Lorenzen Wright left with drugs."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5456648

 

[crobers 78]

"Ex-wife: Lorenzen Wright left with drugs."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5456648

 

[scott frost]

Story seems to have lost some legs. Any word as to what is going on?

 

[scott frost]

Story seems to have lost some legs. Any word as to what is going on?

 

[orthotic]

man that sucks

 

[orthotic]

man that sucks

 

[jhawk826]

Not a good look:

[h1]Wright family court battle exposes ex's spending spree[/h1]
By Marc Perrusquia

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Her spending was brisk and prodigious — $32,000 for a Cadillac Escalade; $26,000 for a Lexus; $69,000 on an assortment of furniture; $11,750 for a trip to New York; $339,000 to buy and improve a new house; $7,100 for a deposit on a swimming pool; $5,000 for lawn equipment; $277 for dinner and a movie; $34,000 on lawyers.

All within 10 months.

But what angers one family member is that Sherra Robinson Wright, ex-wife of the late NBA player Lorenzen Wright, spent the money from life insurance proceeds a judge said was to support the couple's six children.

In all, Sherra Wright received a little more than $1 million in life insurance proceeds 14 months after Lorenzen Wright's still-unsolved 2010 murder. By last September — ten months later — she'd spent $973,000.

That spending, reflected in a recently filed report in Shelby County Circuit Court, has touched off legal battles in two courtrooms for control of what's left in the estate of the Memphis basketball legend who earned more than $55 million over 14 seasons in the NBA yet died facing a severely restricted income and mounting debt.

Records show Sherra Wright directed much of her spending at her children — a 5,300 square-foot-home acquired last June in east Shelby County is titled in the name of a trust for her four sons and two daughters, for example — yet Herb Wright, Lorenzen's father, believes Sherra is not making sound choices and is not acting in his grandchildrens' best interest.

"She had no authority to spend that money like that,'' said Ruby Wharton, Herb Wright's attorney. The generally reserved Wharton said she won't litigate the case in the newspaper but when a reporter called last week she noted the report on Sherra Wright's spending — a "bombshell,'' Wharton called it — triggered prompt action.

The spending report filed in September in Circuit Court as a follow-up to Lorenzen and Sherra's February 2010 divorce prompted Probate Court Judge Robert S. Benham to appoint a guardian ad litem in October to investigate the Wright children's circumstances.

Neither Sherra Wright nor her attorney, Aubrey L. Brown, could be reached for comment. In a Jan. 11 appeal, however, Sherra Wright contends Benham overstepped his authority.

Despite her spending, Sherra Wright's report indicates the family remains financially strong, listing nearly $1.4 million in remaining "assets on hand,'' most of it involving the house in east Shelby County and three investment properties in Arkansas.

Benham's Oct. 12 ruling not only appointed a guardian but also steered guardianship of a second pot of money — $184,000 in death benefits paid by the NBA — to Herb Wright for the benefit of the six Wright children. Although Herb Wright will oversee the funds, Benham temporarily froze the assets.

The decision was improper, in part, because Herb Wright has a history of mismanaging his son's finances, Sherra Wright argued in legal filings. Those papers recount testimony by Herb Wright last fall in which he reportedly said he had "no particular experience'' in financial management and that his involvement in his son's affairs "had been limited to writing checks and paying bills, at his son's direction.''

"He denied ever writing any checks from the account to himself or for his benefit, and he denied ever misappropriating any of his son's funds. He admitted that his son had discharged him and he had therefore ceased handling any of his son's financial matters before his son's death,'' attorney Brown said in the filing in behalf of Sherra Wright.

The filing also indicates Sherra Wright testified "to the level of distrust that existed between her and ... Herb Wright. She testified Lorenzen Wright distrusted his father and as a result removed his father from any control over his accounts and finances.''

Reached by phone, Herb Wright declined comment saying only, "We'll be going back to court.''

Concerns over Sherra Wright's spending stem from a Permanent Parenting Plan filed in January 2010 in connection with her divorce suit against Lorenzen Wright. That plan required Lorenzen to maintain a $1 million life insurance policy for the benefit of his sons and daughters to pay their support in the event of his death.

The divorce was finalized in February 2010. Five months later, Wright's decomposed body was found in a wooded area in southeast Memphis; he'd been shot multiple times. The murder remains unsolved 2-1/2 years later.

All State Insurance honored the $1 million policy, paying $1,033,793 in September 2011. Sherra Wright's spending took off a month later, records show, with a series of furniture purchases, various renovations on investment property in Arkansas as well as children's expenses, including clothing, food and school expenses.

The Permanent Parenting Plan relied on a 2009 temporary child support order requiring Lorenzen Wright to pay $16,650 a month in support and another $10,000 a month in alimony to Sherra — $319,800 a year. At the time, Wright's NBA career was winding down and he left the league after the 2008-09 season. The parenting plan references a "contract pending'' but a review of the court file suggests no adjustment was ever made after Wright's career ended and his income dwindled. He acted as his own attorney in the case.

Herb Wright contended in an October 2011 filing that "Sherra continues to overspend and to live in a similar style when the parties were together,'' contending that a budget of $4,800 a month in support should be fixed.

 

[n3rd]

973,000 in 10months. Gottdamn.

 

[physicx]

WoW....

 

[jpzx]

Jesus. I ain't sayin...

 

[8pm at msg]

That's disgusting.

 

[T0INE]

In all, Sherra Wright received a little more than $1 million in life insurance proceeds 14 months after Lorenzen Wright's still-unsolved 2010 murder. By last September — ten months later — she'd spent $973,000.

So trifling.

Concerns over Sherra Wright's spending stem from a Permanent Parenting Plan filed in January 2010 in connection with her divorce suit against Lorenzen Wright. That plan required Lorenzen to maintain a $1 million life insurance policy for the benefit of his sons and daughters to pay their support in the event of his death.

The divorce was finalized in February 2010. Five months later, Wright's decomposed body was found in a wooded area in southeast Memphis; he'd been shot multiple times. The murder remains unsolved 2-1/2 years later.

This timeline is very interesting.

Lorenzen sets up a life insurance policy for his kids, his divorced his finalized, and later that year he's found dead.

And in less than a year she spends the majority of the life insurance proceeds for her kids.

I always thought something was shady with her in regards to Lorenzen's death and these circumstances just reaffirms my feelings.

Hopefully his murder gets solved, but at this point it's looking bleak.

 

[elpablo21]

That's disgusting.

 

[Bert.]

disgusting

 

[noblekane]

they still havent found who killed him????

 

[nako xl]

i man clearly she overspent... but the majority of the spending was on tuition and investment properties in the kids' name...

the two-three cars thing is stupid. yes.

but it's not like she's od'ing and splurging on herself.

not to mention the dad isn't exactly entirely innocent himself. i'm sure he wants control of those assets ENTIRELY out of concern for the kids' well being.

this article is a little slanted to create controversy and a story. go to family/civil court.  this is every day stuff. widow gets life insurance policy of deceased ex spouse, buys a new car, bitter ex in laws come in and take them to court.

 

[dman14]

https://sports.yahoo.com/arrest-made-murder-former-nba-player-lorenzen-wright-214343288.html

Lorenzen Wright was a star player at the University of Memphis, picked No. 7 in the 1996 NBA Draft ahead of Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Jermaine O’Neal, and Zydrunas Ilgauskas. He played 13 seasons in the NBA for the Clippers, Hawks, and Grizzlies, among others. But sometime after midnight on July 19, 2010, he was shot dead in Memphis, and his murder has remained unsolved.


The arrest followed the October discovery of what police believe was the murder weapon from a Mississippi lake. That discovery led police to publicize once again the $21,000 reward for information on Wright’s murder.

Wright suffered personal and financial difficulties after his playing career ended in 2009. He had been living in Atlanta, but in July 2010 visited Memphis. At about 10:30 in the evening of July 18, his ex-wife said he left her home in Collierville, a Memphis suburb, with drugs and an unspecified amount of cash. He got into a car with an unidentified individual and was never seen again.

Wright called for help on his cell phone shortly after midnight on July 19, and as many as 11 gunshots can be heard on the tape. Wright had at least five gunshot wounds to his body, two to the head, two to the chest, and one to the right forearm. But his body was so badly decomposed by the time it was found that it was impossible to determine whether more shots had hit him.

Police only received 22 tips on Wright’s murder, and none contained substantive information. By December 2010, they indicated that the trail had gone cold.

From 2010: The tribute to former Memphis star Lorenzen Wright. (Getty)
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Jay Busbee is a writer for Yahoo Sports . Contact him at [email protected] or find him on Twitter or on Facebook.

 

[noblekane]

no info yet on the killer huh just name and age? wonder if it was a hired gun

 

[elpablo21]

So the dude went to the same church as the ex-wife....

 

[noblekane]

not another church lovers snapped murder huh?

 

[antbanks81]

I’m looking forward to the details of this one. It didn’t seem as though they’d ever solve it.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

not another church lovers snapped murder huh?

Good job of bandwidth efficiency.