Late actress Lynda Bellingham's son tells her widower "You are nothing" amid bitter inheritance dispute
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Lynda Bellingham’s son has said his stepfather Michael Pattemore was never part of the family and was merely someone for his mum to “pass the time with”.
The late actress’s sons, Michael and Robbie Peluso, are fighting Pattemore over Lynda’s will.
They say they will get “less than £50,000 each” from her estimated £5million estate amid claims – denied by Pattemore – that he splurged their inheritance.
Now Michael says that Pattemore, 61 – who was married to Lynda from 2008 until she died of cancer in 2014, age 66 – meant nothing to his family.
Michael, 34, whose father is Lynda’s second husband, Nunzio Peluso, said: “Nothing you say or do will ever compare to the love my family had.
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“You can’t take that away from us. You never came close. Just a pretender. Someone to fill the gap. Someone to pass the time with.”
Michael said he and Robbie were “stronger together”, telling Pattemore: “You are lonely. We are love and beauty and dignity. You are nothing. Family is blood, family is forever. You are but a whisper in the wind.
“A distant memory. Soon you will be forgotten, but our family bond goes on for an eternity. When all is said and done you won’t be spoken of. No one will remember you,” he added.
Pattemore previously said that he had given Lynda’s sons a £750,000 flat, which would bring rental income. He also claimed that the Loose Women star owed £50,000 when she died.
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But Michael said they owed lawyers £60,000 and face a £30,000 capital gains tax bill, “so we’re looking at having less than £50,000 each”.
Pattemore previously said that he had been visited by Lynda after her death and had made love to her ghost.
Robbie said at the time: “When I read the interview about her ghost, I knew it was time to stand up for her. Our stepfather always says he’s close to us, but that’s not the case.”
Pattemore he recently claimed that Michael and Robbie had never visited their mother’s grave. He told the Sunday Mirror: “If they have, they’ve never left any flowers that I’ve seen”.
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Pattemore added: “It annoys me that they’re still referred to as boys. They aren’t boys. They’re men. They’re perfectly capable of earning a living.”
He continued: “Where were the boys in Lynda’s final hours? With him [their father]. They should have been with their dying mother around the bed, the three of us.”
Lynda’s widower recently told the Sunday Mirror that he has found love again with a woman who also lost her partner to cancer. He met office manager Pam, 54, last Christmas.