A woman who says her father was the late Hugh O’Brian filed court papers seeking a share of his estate, saying her mother refused to comply with a paid push by the actor’s agent at the time that she should have a Mexican abortion.
Kimberly Rallo’s Los Angeles Superior Court petition states that her mother, Carol Ann Schaeffer, dated “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp” actor from January 1962 to February 1963. She is seeking half of what was O’Brian’s separate property before his death.
In February or March 1963, Schaeffer found out she was pregnant, the petition states. Because O’Brian was out of the country filming a movie, she contacted the actor’s agent at the time, according to the petition brought Thursday.
“The agent gave Schaeffer money and the address of a doctor in Tijuana and told her to ‘take care of it,”‘ according to the petition filed Friday. “She did not do so.”
Rallo was born Aug, 31, 1963, and O’Brian paid the doctor who delivered her, the petition states.
Although another man who was romantically involved with Schaeffer is listed as Rallo’s father on her birth certificate, that information is false, according to the petition.
“Rallo is a child of O’Brian and is alive,” the petition states. “O’Brian failed to provide for Rallo in the (O’Brian) trust and in any applicable will, solely because O’Brian was unaware that Rallo was his child at the time of execution of his testamentary instruments at the time of O’Brian’s death.”
O’Brian died a year ago at his Beverly Hills home at age 91. In June 2006, he married for the first time at age 81 to his longtime girlfriend, Virginia Barber.
In his trust, O’Brian stated that he believed he never had any children.
Rallo’s lawyers state in their court papers that their client should be permitted to present DNA “and similar paternity evidence at trial.”
Rallo submitted evidence to the DNA testing website 23andMe.com and the results showed she is a first cousin of both an O’Brian nephew and a niece of the actor, as well as a half-sister of a man who claimed to be the actor’s son, according to the petition.
A hearing on Rallo’s petition is scheduled Nov. 9 before Judge Mary Thornton House.
–City News Service