The crux of the row relates to an argument between Dunbar\u2019s mother, Carole Jahme, 61, and his aunt, Patricia Tonge, 72, after the death of their mother, Dorothy Jahme, three years ago at the age of 97. She left an estate worth \u00a3400,000 that mainly consisted of her home in Axminster, Devon.<\/p>\n
Three years later, the estate \u2014 which is meant to be divided between the daughters and their children \u2014 has yet to be distributed because Jahme and Tonge cannot agree over its management. <\/p>\n
A High Court judge has been told that Jahme bears an \u201cirrational hostility\u201d towards her sister based on a childhood grudge. Tonge has successfully applied to the court for her sister to be removed as an executor of their mother\u2019s will. Dunbar, who the court heard had taken a \u201cback seat\u201d throughout the dispute, was also removed from his role as a co-executor.<\/p>\n
A former trapeze artist and acrobat, Jahme \u2014 who was Faithfull\u2019s daughter-in-law through her marriage to Faithfull\u2019s son, Nicholas Dunbar, a journalist \u2014 has also worked as a dancer, actress, television producer and science fiction writer. <\/p>\n
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The court heard that Carole Jahme, Dunbar\u2019s mother, had an \u201cirrational hostility\u201d towards her sister<\/p>\n
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Dunbar collaborated with Faithfull, who died in January<\/a>, on her song Love Is, which was released posthumously on the album Burning Moonlight<\/a>.<\/p>\n In court, Nathan Wells, Tonge\u2019s barrister, said Jahme had recently displayed \u201cirrational hostility\u201d by raising unfounded accusations of childhood cruelty, accusing her of tying a plastic bag around her head when they were children. He said Tonge denied this.<\/p>\n Wells said there had been chronic delays in their mother\u2019s burial owing to Jahme\u2019s insistence that doctors must change her death certificate. <\/p>\n \u201cCarole insisted that the death certificate should give the cause of death as Covid-19 and not pneumonia and dementia, and said the death certificate should be changed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Patricia Tonge denied accusations of childhood cruelty, the High Court heard<\/p>\n CHAMPION NEWS<\/p>\n Wells said there had been issues with transactions from their mother\u2019s bank account at a time when Jahme had power of attorney over her affairs, and that Jahme and Dunbar had \u201cstepped away from the administration of the estate with no suggestion that they will re-engage\u201d. <\/p>\n The barrister accepted in court that there was \u201cno suggestion\u201d that Dunbar was involved in any possible mismanagement of his grandmother\u2019s bank account, but he said that there was \u201creal concern\u201d over his \u201csustained inactivity\u201d as an executor of the estate. <\/p>\n Judge Katherine McQuail agreed that there were grounds for stripping the executor roles from Jahme and Dunbar, although she stressed it was not her role \u201cto find facts or resolve disputes and wrongdoing\u201d.<\/p>\n The judge noted that Dunbar had not contested the application to remove him from the role of executor. However, referring to his mother, she said: \u201cOne can deduce from all this that she is not able fairly and conscientiously to carry out the administration of this estate in a proper manner.\u201d<\/p>\n A lawyer will replace Jahme and Dunbar as executors of the estate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An indie band member and the grandson of Marianne Faithfull, the Sixties singer, is embroiled in a \u00a3400,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-235977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Patricia](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\/04396019-c4c9-403b-bea1-ec5ea123eb8c.jpg\")
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