While friends and fans did the Come Together thing at a Brad Delp tribute concert last night, the late Boston singer’s family has More Than A Feeling that Delp never meant to leave his house and all his personal possessions to a woman he hadn’t seen in 11 years.

The children of the singer, who committed suicide in March, have hired an attorney to challenge a trust Delp set up in 1996 leaving the aforementioned property to Patricia Komor, an ex-galpal who lived with Delp for six years and who he helped put through law school.
    “I feel an obligation to Brad,” said Delp’s ex-wife Micki, who was married to the singer for 16 years before they split in 1991 and who is the mother of his two kids, Jennifer, 26, ebony porn and John Michael, 22. “This is not what he would have wanted. We are prepared to take this all the way.”
    According to Micki, the trust was established when Komor was living with Delp and studying to become an attorney. (She now works as counsel for the IRS in Colorado). There were no copies of the trust in documents Delp left in his New Hampshire house and Micki is convinced he had completely forgotten about its existence.
    Just prior to his suicide, she said, Brad called her - as he often did before going out on tour - and discussed “the state of his affairs should anything happen to him,” she said.
    “Brad said that he hadn’t changed anything since years ago and the kids would inherit everything,” Micki said. But the singer added that - should anything happen - he hoped the kids would allow his fiancee, Pamela Sullivan, to continue to live in the house and that if the property was sold the kids would split the proceeds with her.
    However, under the terms of the trust, the house goes to Komor along with all his personal property, including a car his son had been driving and a piano he had promised to his daughter.
    What’s more, the trust stipulates that the property be transferred to Komor free and clear of any debt. Which means that Delp’s kids have to pay off the mortgage and car loan out of what’s left of his estate. And it leaves Sullivan out in the cold with nothing.
    “I know that he wouldn’t do that,” Micki said. “He would never do that to Pam.”
    Komor didn’t return our calls or e-mails.
    Dennis Dillon, the attorney for Delp’s kids, said that they are in the process of digging through all their father’s documents to see if there is anything that supercedes the trust. If not, their legal recourse would be to argue that Delp wasn’t in his right mind when he made the trust or was subject to undue influence. However, they face an uphill battle in New Hampshire where the laws governing wills are rather strict.
    “At this point, it’s a moral and ethical issue,” he said. “It’s not yet a legal issue.”
    The Delp kids are hoping that Komor will do the right thing and voluntarily relinquish her right to the property. But they’ve had no indication that she might do that.
    In the meantime, they are left with the irony that their father, who copiously planned his suicide, failed to plan for the aftermath. (Delp lit two charcoal grills and sealed off his bathroom, committing suicide by asphyxiation. He left detailed notes on how to contact his fiancee and left another note on the top of the stairs warning rescuers that there was carbon monoxide in the house. A third missive said the couple’s cat, Floppy, was locked in a room that was safe from the deadly gas.)
    “It really points out how important it is to have a plan,” Dillon said. “The only way to make sure that what you want to happen, happens is to make a will. And if you don’t it likely won’t.” blog comments powered by Disqus