Why did Burt Reynolds leave only his son?

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A second cameraman named Quinton Reynolds would have lived a quiet life in Los Angeles, getting regular work for shows like "NCIS" and TV movies on Christmas and zombies.

But now, Quinton Reynolds is the only son of Burt Reynolds, who died on September 6th at the age of 82. It was reported that Reynolds had "intentionally" left Quinton Reynolds out of his will and named his niece Nancy Lee Brown Hess. , as trustee of his estate.

All of this seems rather disturbing, but Reynolds briefly mentioned in his will that he had made arrangements in his favor for Quinton, aged 30, according to documents obtained by The Blast.

"I intentionally omitted this will, as I expected during my lifetime in my statement of trust," says the document that was executed in 2011. The conditions of the trust are not known.

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The question of not appointing Quinton Reynolds as executor could be linked to legal maneuvers to protect Reynolds estate from taxes or debts. Or it may reflect a complicated relationship between the unusual "Smokey and the bandit" and his only child.

Indeed, things were complicated for a while, according to many reports.

More than 20 years ago, Quinton Reynolds was at the center of one of the most perverse divorces in celebrity history: the bursting in 1993 of his parents, Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson.

The couple were married at a private but lavish ceremony at the Reynolds Ranch in Florida in 1988. Reynolds was 52 years old and Anderson was 41 years old. Reynolds liked to cover himself with diamonds, paintings, and furs. They quickly adopted Quinton, announcing his arrival in life with a birth announcement at the Palm Beach Post.

But the marriage lasted only six years.

After the separation, the couple made the headlines of the tabloids with their whereabouts increasingly nasty. Reynolds accused the old "WKRP in Cincinnati" bomb of being an underemployed actress, a bad mother and being unfaithful. Anderson said the former box office champion was erratic and physically abusive, particularly when she said that he was high on prescription pain and anti-anxiety drugs, the Daily Mail reported .

Following their 1993 divorce, Anderson insisted that a nanny always accompanies 7-year-old Quinton when he visited his father in Florida. The tabloids took the demand to infer that she was afraid of sexual abuse, but Anderson told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1995 that this had never been a concern.

"I am concerned about Burt's erratic behavior. … Quinton is small and I want him to be protected. Her usual nanny had refused to leave because, Anderson told the Chronicle, "Burt threw him a chair."

Not surprisingly, this animosity between Reynolds and Anderson made things difficult for Reynolds with his son.

Closer Weekly recently reported that the father and son have gone through a difficult time, but they have finally managed to get through this difficult time and have become very close.

"I can not do anything about things that were neither happy nor good," Reynolds told Closer Weekly in an interview earlier this month. "I'm just trying not to dwell on those." Regrets are not healthy – it's best to try and let go of things that can not be changed. All my experiences have made me what I am and I am grateful for the positives. I do not consider my past as something negative and, if it's negative, I forgot it. "

In an interview with People in 2015, while promoting his memoirs, "But enough for me," Reynolds said that getting married to Anderson had been a mistake.

"I should have known that you do not marry an actress," Reynolds said. "It was a really stupid gesture on my part."

But Reynolds had only beautiful things to say about his son in an interview before his death. He called Quinton Reynolds "my greatest achievement".

"He is a great young man and now works as a photography assistant in Hollywood," Reynolds told Closer Weekly. "He never asked for help for his career, he did everything himself and I'm so proud of him. I like it a lot. "

When he died, Reynolds would have had a net worth of $ 5 million. He lived his last years at his estate in Florida after his friend bought the property for $ 3.3 million and rented it for a nominal fee because the screen legend had experienced financial difficulties, reported the Daily Mail.