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John Amos’ Daughter Reveals She Learned About His Death Through Media: “We Are Devastated And Left With Many Questions”

Amos' children were locked in a bitter battle over their father's care and legacy before his death.

“We are devastated and left with many questions about how this happened 45 days ago, learning about it through the media like so many of you,” Shannon Amos wrote in a caption to a post on her official Instagram account. In that November story, Shannon Amos, an entertainment executive turned medicinal healer, told THR she supplied extensive documentation to law enforcement agencies in Colorado and New Jersey to investigate her claims of K.C.’s elder abuse, that over time her brother consolidated authority over their father and his affairs, as well as isolating him from members of his inner circle: “This has not only affected me but his grandchildren, his nieces, people he’s worked with and friends he’s had for decades.” K.C., who has been developing a documentary about his father titled America’s Dad, told THR that his sister had engaged in a baroque crusade of character assassination in the hope of making him seem, as he puts it, “unfit.”

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