Casey Kasem's widow cheated on radio legend

 

The ugly family feud surrounding radio legend Casey Kasem who died last Sunday was put on a temporary hold as his daughter Kerri agreed that widow Jean could claim his body.

But behind the scenes, the battle wages on with Kerri accusing her stepmom, Jean, of cheating on her father with a much younger man as he lay on his deathbed.

'Jean has a boyfriend and Kerri believes their affair has been going on for at least two years,' Kerri’s private investigator, Logan Clarke, told the MailOnline in an exclusive interview.  

'Jean has even moved him into the oceanfront condo she owns in Malibu.'

A neighbor at the luxury, 10-unit building overlooking the Pacific confirmed that a man named John Paul (JP) Gressy is now living in the 450 square-foot condo that the Kasems have owned for many years.

A maid who answered the door to the Kasems' condo also confirmed that Gressy lives there.

It's not clear if Gressy is the man Kerri Kasem has accused of being involved with Jean.

Neither Jean Kasem's representative nor Paul Gressy returned calls to MailOnline.

Clarke described the alleged boyfriiend as tall, handsome, dark-haired man about 40 years junior to Casey, who was 82 when he died after battling  Lewy body disease, the most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer's.

 

One of Kerri’s Los Angeles lawyers, Troy L. Martin, also made reference to Jean’s alleged extra-marital activities, writing in court papers dated March 19 this year: 

'Mrs. Kasem has been lying to Mr. Kasem for at least two years, telling him that they are divorced.  What possible motive could Mrs. Kasem have for such cruelty.  

'Perhaps the younger gentleman that is staying at the Malibu house and driving Mr. Kasem’s car could answer that question for us.'

The cheating accusation is the latest in a seven-year battle between Jean Kasem, 60, Casey’s second wife, and Kerri and Julie Kasem - his daughters from his first marriage - over how to manage his deteriorating health. 

The family feud over Casey’s health began in 2007 when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.  He signed a document giving his older children by his first marriage the authority to make decisions concerning his medical care if he was no longer able to himself.  The document declared that he did not want to be kept alive if he had 'no reasonable hope of normal functioning.'

Haney claimed that Kerri’s real concern over her father is that she wants to profit from her father’s death.  'Kerri was cut off in 2007 after she accumulated hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans,' he said in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter the week before Casey’s death. 

 “Casey and Jean’s fear is that any money going to the Scientologist  kids would end up in the Church.  Instead he gave Kerri and her two siblings and Liberty a $2 million insurance policy.

'The kids did not come around from 2007 when they were cut off.  They showed up in 2013 when they heard Casey was dying - a final, desperate effort to hook into his $80 million estate.  Kerri, along with her Scientologist friends, picketed in front of Jean’s house, Jean received death threats, someone went though their trash.'

Kerri, not surprisingly, completely denied these claims in the same Hollywood Reporter article.  'Absolute lies,' she ranted.  'This will be part of my defamation suit.  I never took loans from my dad and he never cut me off.  We have an irrevocable trust that was set up 30 years ago.

'I have never gone a week without either seeing my dad or talking to him on the phone until Jean blocked me, my brother (Mike) and my sister Julie.'