Plumber-turned-bodybuilder and actor Mickey Hargitay was, by 1967, the ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield and the father to three of her children. He became their legal guardian upon her death, and since her will either did not exist or did not include what they stood to inherit, he sued Mansfield's estate. Yet he, estate administrators Bernard B. Cohen and Jerome Webber, Mansfield's mother, and Mansfield's manager all failed in their efforts to either benefit from it or gain possession of it (via Heirs & Successes).
When Mansfield's children tried their hand at it, it was revealed that the debts incurred by their mother (including the construction costs of her "Pink Palace" mansion) exceeded the amount they sought, essentially leaving them empty-handed. As for Mansfield's mansion, it fell into the hands of several owners before its demolition in 2002. These included a banker and his family, singer Cass Elliot, an unknown woman, Ringo Starr, and singer Englebert Humperdinck (via Saint Louis Style).
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