Damian Hurley has gushed that he's 'grateful for his beautiful family' - days after it was revealed that he's been cut out of his late father's family fortune.
The model, 19, shared a sweet snap to Instagram on Sunday showing himself smiling with his mother Elizabeth, 56, maternal grandmother Angela, 80, and cousins.
It comes after it was revealed that Damian will not receive a penny from late his dad Steve Bing, who died by suicide last year, after he was disinherited.
Close bond: Damian Hurley has gushed that he's 'grateful for his beautiful family' and shared a sweet snap - days after it was revealed that he's been cut out of his late father's family fortune (pictured with mum Elizabeth, third right, grandmother Angela, front right, and other relatives)
'Grateful for my beautiful family, today and every day': The model, 19, shared the lovely picture to Instagram on Sunday
Posting on social media, Damian rocked a navy blazer and smiled while leaning on his glamorous grandmother's chair.
Also seen in the lovely image was Damian's cousin Miles - who is the son of Liz's older sister Kate Curran - and two stunning female cousins.
Damian penned: 'Grateful for my beautiful family, today and every day Xx'
Elizabeth has been gently trying to guide her only son through the conflicting emotions of losing the father he was just beginning to get to know.
Shock: It comes after it was revealed that Damian will not receive a penny from late his dad Steve Bing, who died by suicide last year, after he was disinherited (pictured with mum Liz)
Damian and Steve's relationship had almost been non-existent for most of the teen's life, but in the weeks before his death, the multi-millionaire businessman had made tentative steps towards establishing a father-son bond, calling him for the first time on his 18th birthday.
The one solace in the tragedy was that Bing died thinking that his two children — Damian and older half-sister Kira — would be financially secure.
He had recently won a court battle, overturning his own father's attempt to exclude them both from family trust funds believed to be worth up to a billion dollars (£725 million).
Yet the Mail exclusively revealed on Friday that Damian won't receive a penny, after his grandfather succeeded in appealing the decision.
Former flame: Liz has said that when Steve Bing died he believed his two children were going to be looked after (pictured together in a throwback snap)
Tight: The Hurleys are very close, with Liz previously revealing her mum Angela had moved into her Herefordshire mansion so they could spend lockdown together (pictured together)
Instead, the fortune will be split between the two children of Steve's sister Mary, who crucially, unlike their cousins, were born in wedlock.
It is a betrayal that has horrified and devastated Liz, not just that Damian has been deprived of a share that could have reached $250 million (around £180 million) but also that he has been effectively disowned by his father's family.
During an emotionally turbulent year, Hurley has maintained a dignified silence, but so appalled is she by the 'callous' treatment of her son by his own grandfather that she gave a statement to the Mail yesterday.
'When Stephen took his own life, he died thinking his children were going to be taken care of,' she says.
'What Stephen wanted has now been callously reversed. I know Stephen would have been devastated.'
Kira's mother, Lisa Kerkorian, has also been left reeling. She told the Mail this week: 'As a mum, I wonder why on earth this had to happen. Why make two innocent kids into victims?'
Hard: During a turbulent year, Liz has maintained a dignified silence, but so appalled is she by the treatment of her son by his own grandfather she gave a statement to the Mail on Friday
For many years, Bing had refused to publicly acknowledge Damian, or Kira, 23. He ruthlessly made a will while Liz was pregnant with Damian, ensuring neither would inherit.
Yet in the final years of his life Bing had tried to build bridges, only for his tragic death to unfold against a backdrop of labyrinthine legal action: in March 2019, Steve's father, the billionaire Dr Peter Bing, went to court to cut Damian and Kira out of the 'grandchildren trusts' he had set up nearly 40 years earlier, on the basis they were both born out of wedlock.
It led Liz and Lisa to join forces to contest his application and, in July 2019, a judge ruled that both Damian and Kira were entitled to a slice of the family fortune. But their victory was short-lived.
Dr Bing, now 90, appealed that decision and last October, four months after his son's death, a judge ruled that he could distribute the trust as he saw fit.
Family: Lisa Kerkorian had a daughter called Kira with the late billionaire Steve (pictured together in an undated snap) and had joined forces with Liz to contest the legal action
'Damian's grandfather, Peter Bing, had attempted to have Stephen's children, including Damian, disregarded as his grandchildren in the irrevocable trust he had previously set up,' says Hurley.
'Stephen fought very hard in his last year to have his children recognised and repeatedly told me how incredibly important this was to him.
'He was happy beyond belief that the trial verdict ruled that Damian was to be treated like his sister's children as far as the trust was concerned.
'I am just relieved that Stephen will never know that Damian's relatives — Stephen's father and the family of his sister Mary — were ultimately successful in their appeal against the original trial verdict.'
Lisa Kerkorian agrees. 'It's been horrible — forget about the actual legality of it all: this is their grandfather saying: 'You don't count, and I don't want you to be a part of our lives because your mum was not married to my son.'
'Damian and Kira have been disinherited from the Bing family trust. There's no recourse, they can't go back. They lost. It's been very painful for them and left a family void for Damian and Kira to deal with.
The way they were: Liz believes Steve would have been devastated by the decision to exclude Damian from the trust money (pictured in an undated snap)
'I can tell you Steve loved his children and regretted not being there for them during his lifelong struggle with drug addiction. He expressed remorse to me for not being a father to them and he lived with the guilt of that.'
After Bing's death, Liz made a point of paying tribute to him as a 'sweet, kind man'.
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