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Leonard Cohen's manager has been accused of fleecing the late singer-songwriter's estate after it emerged his former lawyer forged a document putting him in charge of the $48 million fortune. 

Manager Robert Kory is locked in a nasty inheritance battle with Cohen's children who claim he has been acting a Trustee of their father's estate on the basis of 'forgery and fraud.' 

Adam Cohen, 50, and his 48-year-old sister Lorca are now fighting to remove Kory from their father's estate, have him turn over its assets and return any money he earned from his activity in the role.

However Kory - who claims he was not aware of the forged document - claims he has made the children 'enormously wealthy' from commercial deals he oversaw during his time managing Cohen's assets.  

It comes as Kory's former attorney Reeve Chudd admitted to removing a page from Cohen's signed trust and replacing it with one stating his client was the primary trustee. 

It makes Chudd guilty of felony - though he claims it was a 'horrible mistake.'

Cohen, who is most famed for his song Hallelujah, died in 2016 aged 82 following a fall in the middle of the night.

He left behind an archive worth more than $48 million which includes 250 journals he kept since being a child, poetry books, photos and millions of dollars in royalties. 

Back in December it was revealed Lorca and Adam had filed a lawsuit against Kory, 72, in the Los Angeles Superior Court. 

At the time they accused him of forging documents in 2005 to take control of the singer's assets. 

Their attorney Adam Streisand accused Kory and his lawyers in December of attempting to 'fleece the estate of millions of dollars.'  

Kory has firmly placed the blame for the forgery with attorney Reeve Chudd whom he claims 'modified a document unbeknownst to anybody.'

But a motion filed by Lorca and Adam says the claims 'strain credulity.'