Shannen Doherty signed divorce papers the day before she died

Shannen Doherty she died free. After months of push and pull with her ex-husband Kurt Iswarienko, the actress had accepted the divorce settlement, which came on July 12, the day before her disappearance.

The actress – according to documents obtained by the magazine People, who broke the news – signed her waiver of maintenance from Iswarienko, accepting the dissolution of their union, already established by mutual agreement, without having to resort to court. “The parties have entered into a written agreement regarding their property and their marital or cohabitation rights, including maintenance, the original of which is or has been submitted to the court,” the documents read.

Shannen Doherty on ex-husband Kurt Iswarienko: ‘He’s waiting for me to die so he doesn’t have to pay child support’

The photographer is apparently stalling for time in the divorce to avoid paying alimony to the actress, who has late-stage cancer. She made the accusation herself, adding details about Iswarienko’s crazy spending, much higher than what she should be spending if the separation were finalized

This brings to a close a thorny affair, which had caused Doherty no small amount of worry in the last months of her life. At the end of June People had released another document, which reported some of the actress’s phrases. «It is not fair that Kurt is being allowed to drag out our divorce in the hopes that I die before he is required to pay me child support, as he continues to live his life and shirk his responsibilities to his dying wife for more than 11 years,” he said. It was the actress herself who refused the financial agreement that had been proposed to her, because it did not take into account the income that her ex had had during the years of their marriage. Doherty, moreover, had stopped working and all her income depended on what she had earned in previous years. In the end, Iswarienko was not forced to pay anything considering the timing of the signatures (the actress’s is from July 12 and his from the 13th), but at least he should not inherit anything.

The man’s behavior has been strongly criticized by people very close to Doherty, above all her friend Tara Furiani. “I am truly sad and shocked by the death of my friend Shannen…”, she wrote on LinkedIn Sunday, July 14th. “She had stage 4 breast cancer that had metastasized to multiple parts of her body, death was inevitable and she knew that… she made peace with that.” And again: «Her pain and suffering in the preceding months must not have been so profound, if her husband had been a decent human being. He could have shown some humanity to his dying wife.” According to Furiani, Doherty had “lost everything” during the years of her illness. «Her husband was dragging her out in court, trying to delay a sentence or payment, until her death. (Shannen) believed she was doing this and said so publicly, just a month ago.”

No public comment, at least for now – from Iswarienko, who married Doherty in 2011, after three years together. Words full of affection, instead, came from Ashley Hamilton, with whom the actress was married for a short period, from 1993 to 1994: «Even if things don’t always go as we hope, She has been by my side during some of my darkest moments. My love and admiration for her has lasted much longer than our short-lived marriage,” he said. TMZ. In the end, as the many messages of affection and closeness that arrived in the last few days have shown, those who loved the actress were many more than those who had difficult relationships with her. And that’s what matters most.