The mom of late Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson will be allowed to continue her lawsuit against his widow in their battle of the wills, a judge ruled Monday.
Thompson died of cancer in October 2016, just 11 days after he signed a new will that cut out mom, Clara Thompson, and left everything to his widow, Lu-Shawn, and the couple’s two children.
But Brooklyn surrogates court Judge John Ingram wrote Monday that a “combination of factors casts doubt” on the validity of the 2016 will, including that it “differs from [Thompson’s] 2008 Will in a number of significant ways, all benefitting Lu-Shawn.”
Thompson’s 2008 will had left $900,000 to his mother, sister and other family members — and no ready cash to his allegedly spendthrift widow.
Ingram ordered both parties to return to court in September.
Following Thompson’s death, Clara Thompson filed bombshell court papers accusing Lu-Shawn of manipulating Thompson into signing a deathbed will that benefitted her and flitting off to Martha’s Vineyard as he lay dying of cancer.
In August 2017, Lu-Shawn fired back in court papers renouncing all property left to her but was then accused of trying to manipulate the situation in her favor.
She responded to those allegations in a recently filed affidavit, saying that removing herself from proceedings was not a “calculated response to this litigation.”
She then trashed her mother-in-law and late husband’s siblings, writing “under the guise of safeguarding my children’s interests, the petitioners have done so much damage.
“They have made a public spectacle of my husband’s death and tarnished his legacy,” the filing continues. “They have published outrageous and embarrassing lies about my husband, they have belittled and critiqued our marriage and our life together, and they have lessened my children’s inheritance by causing my husband’s estate to incur significant and unnecessary legal fees.”
An attorney for Lu-Shawn did not return a message from The Post seeking comment.