“Good Times” star John Amos died of congestive coronary heart failure greater than a month in the past, Folks reviews.
The information of his passing at 84 years outdated broke Tuesday, although Amos reportedly had died multiple month earlier. His son, Okay.C. Amos, divulged on the time that pure causes had been accountable.
In keeping with a dying certificates obtained earlier this week by Folks, Amos died of congestive coronary heart failure on Aug. 21 at 5:18 p.m. at a hospital in Inglewood. The certificates additionally confirmed Amos was cremated on Aug. 30 and not using a prior post-mortem.
The sluggish drip of stories in regards to the actor’s passing has exacerbated a feud between Okay.C. and his sister, Shannon Amos — who introduced Wednesday that she solely discovered about her father’s dying “through the media.” Okay.C. was the one who reported John Amos’ dying to police, based on Folks.
“We are devastated and left with many questions about how this happened 45 days ago, learning about it through the media like so many of you,” Shannon wrote on Instagram on the time, including she is “struggling” to course of the “uncertainties surrounding his passing.”
The patriarch’s dying has solely worsened the battle between Okay.C. and Shannon, who beforehand accused him on-line and in official filings with authorities in New Jersey and Colorado of “elder abuse,” isolating their father from the remainder of the household and allegedly exploiting his funds.
Shannon reportedly launched a GoFundMe in June 2023 in what she stated was an effort to lift cash for her father’s care. (Amos denied claims of abuse to Parade on the time and stated by means of his consultant, Belinda Foster, that he was “doing well” and that the GoFundMe’s description of his state of affairs was inaccurate.)
The next month, Okay.C. was arrested after Shannon claimed he had despatched her “terroristic” threats through textual content message.
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Los Angeles police reportedly even opened an investigation into the matter however closed the case in April with out bringing any fees towards both social gathering.
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In statements to information shops, Okay.C. has denied all claims of abuse. Foster, in the meantime, on Friday tried to make clear why Shannon hadn’t been notified.
“At the time of John’s passing, K.C. was under a strict no-contact order from the Superior Court of New Jersey based on the Complaint that his sister Shannon brought against him in 2023,” she stated.
Whereas the actor’s goddaughter, Amy Goudy, shared a Fb assertion Wednesday on behalf of herself and Shannon to recommend Amos “was likely cremated to avoid any potential investigation,” Foster revealed Friday that it was Amos himself who requested as a lot.
“At the time of his death, John was concerned that Shannon might turn his death and internment into a circus as she had done with other aspects of his life,” she advised Folks. “It was John who requested the delay in announcing his death to Shannon and the rest of the world.”
Amos was greatest often known as the daddy on “Good Times” but additionally earned an Emmy nomination for his function within the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots.”
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