The woman whose leased Mar Vista home was destroyed when Anne Heche drove into it with her car in 2022 has won her bid for an accounting of the actress’ estate.
Lynne Mishele had maintained in court papers filed June 18 in Los Angeles Superior Court that a settlement of her creditor’s claim against the Heche estate could not be reached without the administrator offering the petitioner an accounting. On Thursday, Judge Michael R. Powell ordered that the accounting be done within 30 days of his order.
“The court finds that additional evidence by supplemental declaration or additional documentation is required to grant the matter on calendar this date based upon the reading of the moving papers and consideration of all presented evidence,” Powell’s clerk wrote in a minute order.
Mishele was the tenant and business owner who escaped unharmed with her pets from the Walgrove Avenue home, but was displaced and lost most of her belongings in the massive fire that followed the Aug. 5, 2022 crash.
Heche’s oldest son, Homer Heche Laffoon, 24, is the administrator of his mother’s estate. Laffoon has said a complete accounting would be forthcoming, but has not provided the information even though his mother died nearly four years ago, according to Mishele’s petition. Powell has scheduled another accounting hearing for Oct. 23.
An accounting of an estate is a formal, comprehensive financial report prepared by an executor or administrator. It details all assets, income, expenses, debts paid and distributions made during the estate’s administration. Laffoon also has said the Heche estate is insolvent with more than $6 million in creditor claims compared to $350,000 in assets.
Laffoon is the son of Heche’s ex-husband, 52-year-old producer and real estate broker Coleman Laffoon. Heche died six days after the crash on Aug. 11, 2022, at age 53.