Coleman's third will surfaces; enters a mystery woman

The former child star Gary, known to the entertainment world as the precocious Arnold Jackson on 1970s hit TV series 'Diff'rent Strokes,' died May 28 in Utah after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 42.

One day later after his hospitalization, the tiny actor slipped into a coma and on May 28, his 24-year old former wife Shannon Price decided to take him off life support.

The Gary will saga
Before the emergence of the third will, two wills were presented- one by his friend and former manager, Dion Mial, and the other by Price.

In the first will, which was drafted April 5, 1999 by Mial, Gary named Mial as executor of his estate and specified how he would like to be remembered. The two-page will was filed Tuesday in a Provo, Utah, court, in which the tiny actor has clearly instructed who should and shouldn't be permitted at his wake and funeral.

Gary and the mystery woman Anna were just friends and were living in the same house but in separate bedrooms. Anna moved to Utah with the actor in 2005 but their relationship soured after he met his future-wife Price, whom he wed in 2007.

In challenge to the 1999 will, wherein Mial has been named as executor, Price, who is not named in the newly-discovered will, filed a handwritten document dated Sept. 4, 2007 in a Provo, Utah, court, seeking to assume control of the late actor's estate.

The said handwritten document intends to alter all earlier wills and names Price as the sole heir of Gary’s all assets, including his earnings, bank accounts, home, vehicles, cars, toys, games, electronics, his prized model train set and other inheritances, if any.

Emergence of a third will
The bizarre saga of Coleman's death continues as a third will has surfaced, naming a mystery woman as a sole heir of his estate, according to UsMagazine.com, citing Entertainment Tonight report.

According to ET, the new 23 page will, executed on February 3, 2005, was filed in Utah on June 11th, which names a new woman, Anna Gray, as executor and sole beneficiary of his estate.

The mystery woman
In the document, Coleman leaves everything to Anna, who was reputedly CEO of Gary's corporation and previously lived with the 'Diff'rent' Strokes star.

The actor's agent, Robert Malcom, who is promoting Anna as the sole beneficiary of his client's estate, not Shannon Price, tells ET Anna became close friends with Gary after meeting him in 1997.

Anna, who the agent claims was Gary's most trusted friend, even stayed in his in Los Angeles home for several months before being named the CEO of his corporation.

The two were just friends and were living in the same house but in separate bedrooms. Anna moved to Utah with the actor in 2005 but their relationship soured after he met his future-wife Price, whom he wed in 2007.

"When Shannon moved in, the relationship got difficult because Shannon didn't like the fact that there was somebody else in his life," Malcom tells ET. "Of course, he sided with [Shannon], and Anna was asked to leave."

In the newly revealed will, Gary states that he wishes "to be cremated and that there be no funeral service, wake, or other ceremony memorializing my passing."

Price responds to third will
Meanwhile, Price has responded to sudden emergence of the third will, describing it as "despicable," according to RadarOnline.com.

Her attorney Todd A. Bradford told the publication that despite the existence of multiple Gary wills he expects Price to assume full control of her ex-husband's estate.

"I will handle everything as I would have before, because the 2007 addendum names Shannon as the sole beneficiary," Bradford told Radar. "I don't think this would effect her legal rights because the codicil was written in 2007 and this new will is from two years earlier."

According to Bradford, Price hasn’t yet formally learned of the emergence of new will.

"If I have to get off the phone to speak to Shannon," a shocked lawyer told Radar, "she is not aware of this new will, as far I know."