WWE legend Hulk Hogan had his daughter, Brooke, faraway from his will two years earlier than he died of cardiac arrest at his Florida property, it has been revealed.
The wrestler, who died on the age of 71 inside his Clearwater, FL, residence in July, left behind a fortune price $5 million, in keeping with his son, Nick Hogan, who’s listed as his father’s sole beneficiary.
Nick, 35, filed paperwork on Sept. 9 asking to be named because the co-personal consultant of his father’s property, alongside a person named Terry McCoy, as first reported by Us Weekly. The court docket has since signed off on his request.
In that submitting, Nick claimed that his father, whose actual title was Terry Gene Bollea, had a large fortune when he died, together with $200,000 price of cryptocurrency, $799,000 in private and mental property, and his proper to publicity, which is valued at $4 million.
Moreover, Nick mentions a possible medical malpractice lawsuit that’s believed to consult with a case that his father’s third spouse, Sky Day by day, is reportedly planning to launch towards a surgeon who operated on the wrestler’s neck in Might 2025.
Moreover, the court docket submitting notes that Hogan’s will was initially executed in 2016, and several other amendments had been then made in 2017, 2021, 2022, and in July 2023, when he eliminated Brooke as a beneficiary.
Apparently, nonetheless, the court docket paperwork make no point out of the wrestler’s actual property portfolio—leaving the way forward for his expansive Florida property unknown.
Hogan’s spectacular abode was made up of two adjoining beachfront properties that he bought a number of years aside in an prosperous space of Clearwater.
The primary dwelling was bought for $3.3 million in 2012—three years after he cut up from his first partner, Linda, with whom he had two kids.
Hogan purchased the home subsequent door for $1.6 million in 2016, nonetheless each properties at the moment are price a mixed $11 million, in keeping with estimates.
The primary of the 2 houses, which was utilized by Hogan as his main residence for a few years, options 5 bedrooms, 5.5 loos, and greater than 5,000 sq. ft of dwelling house. The second abode provided a a lot smaller retreat with 4 bedrooms, two loos, and a couple of,000 sq. ft of dwelling house.
Data present that each properties are registered to an LLC and belief linked to Hogan and ex-wife Jennifer, suggesting that there could also be a barely extra complicated authorized battle to find out who will get a share of the property.
In accordance with a earlier report by Us Weekly, these sorts of authorized entanglements are what prompted Hogan’s daughter to be written out of his will—with the onetime singer’s husband, Steve Oleksy, claiming shortly after the WWE star’s loss of life that Brooke requested to be faraway from the doc in 2023.
Brooke and her father had been estranged for a while within the lead-up to his loss of life—nonetheless Oleksy mentioned that she had executed her utmost to “uphold her dad’s finest pursuits” throughout that point.
Nonetheless, Oleksy famous that a lot of Hogan’s fortune got here from a lawsuit filed towards the information web site Gawker, which leaked parts of a intercourse tape made by the wrestler in 2013. That tape featured feedback made by Hogan about his daughter and a former boyfriend.
In 2016, Hogan was awarded $31 million in damages because of the leak, and Oleksy mentioned that Brooke needed to make no declare to any share of the cash that had come from that settlement, even after her father’s loss of life.
“That cash doesn’t signify accomplishments within the ring—nearly all of it got here on the expense of my spouse’s dignity,” Oleksy informed Us Weekly in July. “It was constructed on hurtful feedback about her and her previous relationship, which induced ache not solely to her, however to many different households.
“Whereas one life was positively modified endlessly from a monetary standpoint, the true victims by no means acquired a direct apology—and, regardless of the life-altering embarrassment, they by no means acquired or requested for a single greenback in compensation.”
He added: “No sum of money can erase that ache or restore what was taken.”
Quickly after her father’s loss of life, Brooke herself opened up about how their relationship had crumbled—explaining that their rift was not the results of a “large combat,” however somewhat a cumulation of hurtful conversations and interactions over a span of a number of years.
“My father and I by no means ‘fought.’ It was a sequence of telephone calls nobody will ever hear, know, or perceive,” she wrote on Instagram, noting that she and her husband moved all the way down to Florida in order that she could possibly be nearer to her father—just for the wrestler to start chopping her out of his life.
“All the pieces began getting lined in a thick veil. It was like there was a pressure area round him that I couldn’t get by way of,” she defined.
“Over the past two years, I needed to step away to guard my coronary heart.”
