Dianne Feinstein's daughter Katherine is accused of 'hastily' trying to sell ... trends now
Following the late September death of Senator Diane Feinstein, the family battle over her late billionaire husband Richard Blum's estate appears to only be intensifying.
Feinstein's 66-year-old daughter Katherine, a former San Francisco judge, has been at odds with her three stepsisters over the fate of the estate's Joint Property Trust since Blum's death last year.
In court filings this week, Michael Klein, one of the estate's co-trustees, accused Katherine of changing the locks on one of the properties in the estate, a waterfront mansion in Stinson Beach, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
After the home was listed for $8.5 million, Klein accused Katherine of 'hastily' trying to sell the Stinson Beach property against court orders in 'an attempt to increase Ms. K. Feinstein's own inheritance during the remaining months of her mother's life.'
'Not only did she ignore the personal toll this very public litigation took on Senator Feinstein, but she also ignored that there are other beneficiaries of the Joint Property Trust,' the filing added.
Diane Feinstein's daughter has been accused of trying to 'hastily' sell this waterfront mansion in Stinson Beach for $8.5 million
Katherine Feinstein, daughter of late Senator Dianne Feinstein, is seen preparing to receive her mother's casket at San Francisco City Hall following her late September death
An attorney for Katherine, John Hartog, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com on Saturday morning.
However, Hartog told the Chronicle that she disputed certain allegations in the new filing, including that she had denied Klein access to the properties in the trust following her mother's death.
Hartog also said that Klein has access to the DC home owned by the trust and is overseeing the process of inventorying the possessions inside.
The estate battle has been brewing since Feinstein's billionaire husband Blum passed away from cancer in February 2022 at the age of 86.
He had three daughters from a prior marriage: Annette Blum, Heidi Blum Riley and Eileen Blum Bourgarde. Katherine is Feinstein's biological daughter, also from a prior marriage.
Following his death, much of Blum's estate went into a marital trust, and Feinstein inherited an annual income of $1 million through her separate trust.
Katherine, acting with power of attorney for her mother, sued the marital trust that the senator and Blum held much of their properties and bank accounts in.
The Stinson Beach home has played a major role in the legal feud. Ownership of the home was divided equally between Feinstein and Blum in a joint property trust, of which they were co-trustees.
Following Blum's death, his longtime lawyer Klein took over as co-trustee, and Katherine took over as co-trustee for her mother in August 2022.
Much of Feinstein's considerable wealth was fueled by her political clout and marriage to financier Richard Blum (pictured together)
The late senator's daughter Katherine Feinstein, a San Francisco judge, sued earlier this year as she claimed her relatives were purposefully holding up the sale of one of her mother's real estate properties
