John Amos' Daughter Says She Learned of Dad's Death 'Through the Media' | TMZ Live
John Amos' daughter Shannon is grieving alongside fans following the death of the "Good Times" actor ... revealing she too just learned her famous dad passed away.
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00:00The plot thickens in the death of John Amos the beloved actor from Good Times Roots and so many other
00:08projects
00:09There is a family war and we can see it now in the death certificate
00:14Right because we got the death certificate this morning broke the story because it does
00:20definitely point to the strife between John Amos his son and his daughter and
00:26Remember the background here is that it came out yesterday that John Amos the father from Good Times
00:32Also coming to America lots of things he died, which was shocking enough
00:36But when we also saw the second line of the announcement, which came from his son Casey
00:42Was that he died on August 21st yet. He was announcing it on
00:48October 1st and what happened everyone is wondering how
00:52How did that happen dead for that long? So the John Amos his daughter Shannon
00:58said she found out
01:00when he told them when her brother told the media and
01:04And she didn't know so then we look at this death certificate and it says that I was cremated
01:12Nine days after he died back in August Ellie Amos more than a month ago son
01:17Yeah, and see and he by the way, he died of congested heart failure
01:21But he cremated him almost immediately
01:23He has the ashes at his home that Casey the son has the ashes but didn't tell anybody
01:31including Shannon
01:33Until yesterday. Yeah, and by the way, you should say oh that makes it sound like he called Shannon
01:38He did not call Shannon. She found out when it came out in the media, right that when he made the announcement
01:44So Shannon is now saying it's interesting. Shannon just came out an allegation. That is real
01:50Shocking about what was going on around the time that John died
01:54She said someone was in the ER the night. My father died and
01:58Pretended to be his daughter. I'm his only daughter
02:02We believe it was Belinda Foster the woman who's also posing as his publicist. He died alone without family
02:10Anyone who knows anything, please DM me any info shared will be confidential
02:14And we should say that Shannon had made a claim that her brother Casey was guilty of elder abuse
02:21Right, that was last that was last year and it was actually investigated by the authorities
02:26They dropped it because they said there was no evidence to support this
02:30But the bad blood between John's siblings John's daughter and son continued
02:36In fact at one point Casey the son was arrested
02:40for making threats against his sister
02:43So there is very bad blood between them and now
02:48John has died. He's been cremated
02:50Shannon wants answers by the way, not gonna get answers because there was no autopsy right no autopsy
02:58also in the death certificate, so
03:00There's there's a battle that's gonna be brewing here over his estate. You would imagine like because this is just so sad
03:07And you know John had hoped he said back in December that he had hoped his kids could work this out
03:11Obviously, they did not to not even tell your sibling that their their parent has died is so harsh and in such a deep rift
03:19There I don't know how you get over this. It's just sad
03:21I mean not just because you know, John Amos is so beloved for so many things that breaks my heart
03:25But just any family it shouldn't it shouldn't end like that. It shouldn't have ended like that for John Amos
03:29It shouldn't be like this for this children. It's just sad all around, you know, and it to me
03:35Just as a lawyer
03:37What I see looming is a huge fight over John's estate
03:42I
03:43Don't know whether they've even filed whether Casey has filed anything for probate
03:48I don't know who the executor is don't know what the assets are
03:51But this could end up being a huge fight in court because it's all
03:57smelling like that right now
03:58It'll be interesting to see in John's will if if what he left to his daughter because it didn't seem like he had a rift
04:04With her but he was clearly closer to Casey who was taking care of him or or if there was a new will
04:08Or if it could have happened and she could contest that right if she says that he had dementia is what she had claimed
04:12Right that so yeah, this is not over yet
04:15Hey, it's Julie from the recap of Julie. I am on the east coast of New Brunswick, Canada
04:20This whole story is so strange to me like she acts like she's concerned
04:24But yet she didn't know her father passed for 45 days
04:27Like when was the last time she was in contact with her dad if she didn't even know for over a month that he had passed
04:33away and her writing as well to saying that my father's finally free in her statement just to me seems like she's
04:40Insinuating the abuse was still going on with her brother and that you know, everything she claimed was still happening
04:46So when's the last time she saw him was there?
04:49No memorial or funeral that was in the paper that would have alerted her to this like we don't think so
04:54There was not no. No, I mean believe me if there had been anything about a memorial for John Amos
04:59We didn't know all the media right known about right? So
05:02That's the thing is that Casey kept this under wraps somehow for 45 days shocking. Yeah