{"id":616707,"date":"2026-07-07T05:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/616707\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:45:18","slug":"late-nhl-star-claude-lemieuxs-will-nominates-wife-to-administer-estate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/616707\/","title":{"rendered":"Late NHL Star Claude Lemieux\u2019s Will Nominates Wife to Administer Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prior to his tragic passing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/claude-lemieux\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Claude Lemieux;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Claude Lemieux&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Claude Lemieux<\/a> picked his wife to run his estate \u2026 this according to the late hockey star\u2019s will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, the late NHL star said in his will that he wanted to have his wife, Deborah Lemieux, appointed as the administrator of his estate.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Instagram \/ @deblemieux\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/59ae772e80a324a2c10363118bc9c32c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Instagram \/ @deblemieux<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The legal papers say everything will be distributed pursuant to the terms of a separate trust \u2026 and the beneficiaries include Deborah, their son Brendan, their daughter Claudia, his grandson Luc and his granddaughter Sutton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The list of beneficiaries in Deborah\u2019s petition does not explicitly mention Claude\u2019s 2 sons from his first marriage &#8212; Michael and Christopher.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/photos\/2026\/05\/28\/remembering-claude-lemieux\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Getty\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5aad29272e29c5a99d1bbff3e714921c.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remembering Claude Lemieux &#8211; Click image to open gallery<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TMZ broke the story \u2026 Claude <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/claude-lemieux-former-nhl-star-172357263.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:died;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;died&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died<\/a> by suicide in May at 60 years old. His son <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/claude-lemieux-died-suicide-exclusive-181101588.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:found his body;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;found his body&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found his body<\/a> at a warehouse owned by the family, but it\u2019s unclear which son that was. Christopher, Claudia and Brendan all <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/claude-lemieuxs-family-posts-heartbreaking-183130337.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:shared;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;shared&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared<\/a> touching tributes to their father online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:988lifeline.org;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;988lifeline.org&quot;}\" class=\"link \">988lifeline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior to his tragic passing, Claude Lemieux picked his wife to run his estate \u2026 this according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15831,67923,65263,5,19183,4,21215],"class_list":["post-616707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-claude-lemieux","tag-daughter-claudia","tag-deborah-lemieux","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-star","tag-nhl","tag-tmz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116877113913541056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}