", Sit back, close your eyes, and try to come up with an American celebrity, living or dead, youd be less likely to associate with this kind of lurid tabloid grotesque than Casey Kasem. All Mike wants, he said, is to make sure his dad is safe now. Kerri was born on July 12, 1972, and much like her father she also works on the radio. Kerri Kasem - My brother, Mike Kasem, got married!!! It. Instead, Jean asked to be taken to a private residence, a three-bedroom ranch house. Then we love sharing. The suit also named their 29-year-old stepsister, Liberty Kasem, as a defendant. The disagreement of the family continued as Kasems older children and brother sued Jean for wrongful death and for causing them emotional distress when their father and brother took ill. HAPPIER TIMES: Mike Kasem and his late father Casey (left) in 2008, and with his ex-girlfriend Mindy Chia. Find out after the break.) By the time ABC purchased American Top 40 in 1982, Kasem was reportedly paid more than $1 million a year for that hosting gig alone. And then: "I would love to participate but only if the article is truthful and accurate. ", Casey Kasem began his "American Top 40" radio show in July 1970, signing off each time with the message, "And don't forget: keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars.". Hearing that, its natural to assume that Kasems elder kids are fighting with their stepmother and half sister over their fathers fortune. She declined to comment when contacted by The New Paper. She married Kasem in 1972 and became the mother of his first three children; daughters Kerri Kasem, and Julie Kasem, and son, Michael Mike Kasem. The most popular one is the voice of Shaggy in Scooby-Doo. However, Casey and Jean were nowhere to be found. Casey's fortune is said to be worth US$80 million (S$100 million). She cited his temper as the primary reason for the split. i'm a chip off the ol block. Dont miss to subscribe to our new feeds, kindly fill the form below. Their son is named after Mikes dad, late iconic radio personality Casey Kasem, and Su-Anns dad, Patrick. "My younger sister and I had our reasons for throwing in the towel," Mike tells me when I reach him in Singapore. A year later, She and the radio host's kids don't get along. The white-colored property was a 12,000-square-foot land with eight bedrooms and a little swimming pool shaped like a heart. latest entertainment, celebrity, food and lifestyle news! The 46-year-old jock and his 32-year-old ex-professional golfer wife are having a baby boy! So then, I was hoping for a boy and got it! Mike exclaims. But when his illness, diagnosed in 2007, began to erode his faculties, all that hed built up began to break down, and the mounting rancor within the Kasem family only made his decline sadder and more poignant. She had allegedly denied them access to their father, who lived with her in a mansion near Hollywood. WebKasem married with Linda Myers Kasem in 1972. In the ensuing months, Jean offered a deal: Her stepkids could see their dad once a month for an hour, but a security guard had to monitor their visits, and the kids would have to split the cost of that guard with Jean. I want to hear Jeans version of her battle with Kerri, which, at least from a legal standpoint, has been truly epic and insanely expensive: Over the past year and a half, according to court documents, Jean has gone through a remarkable thirteen different sets of attorneys. Kasem has celebrated as a Hollywood icon today thanks to his amazing career in showbiz. But by then Kerri had won control of the decision-making, and Jean wasnt there. From the beginning, there were reports that Jean Kasem didnt want to be involved with her three stepchildren and would rather have them stay away from their fathers mansion even when it was spacious enough to accommodate them. It was alleged that Jean was a mentally unstable woman and did not care about her husband which led to his death. "West Los Angeles Police Department where are you?! From 1970 until his final show in 2009, Kasems reports of which songs had leapt up a notch and which had slid down reflected a belief in meritocracy and a sort of Horatio Alger-style optimism that was peculiarly, iconically American. ladies and gentlemen.. making his first appearance on the world stageplease welcome Casey Patrick Kasem! Our hearts are so full, and we are so in love. As Liberty shrieked, "Where are you taking my father??" Kasemhad Kerri, Julie, and Mike from his first wife, Linda, and Liberty from his second wife, Jean. We thought it might take a while. She used to work as a secretary for his agent. Besides her marriage to Kasem who gained massive recognition for his American Top 40 and as the voice of Shaggy in the 1960s animated franchise Scooby-Doo, she had a cameo appearance in the 1980 comedy film,Up The Academyas Butch Officer 2. Clarke says Jeans motives are simple: She hopes to dispose of her husbands remains outside the U.S. in order to "avoid detection of the physical damage she had done to him." Lots of families, she says, find themselves in similar situations, and she has launched a foundation called Kasem Cares to support adult children whose ability to visit and communicate with an ailing family member has been terminated or obstructed by a stepparent or other legal caretaker. "I feel like when he was healthy, I took it for granted. "There, she and Liberty moved Casey in with a childhood friend whom Casey had never met.". Casey Kasem was the husband of Jean Kasem when he passed away. They kept him company when the 41-year-old broke up with his girlfriend of one-and-a-half years, Miss Mindy Chia. Its as if theres never been a moment of peace between the sidesas if acrimony were simply the Kasems way of being. Finally, on June 15, surrounded by his three eldest children and his brother, he died. Linda Myers Kasem is the ex-wife of late American actor, DJ, and radio presenter, Kemal Amin Casey Kasem popularly known as Casey Kasem.