LOS ANGELES – Two longtime associates of Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson have petitioned a court, at his family’s behest, to place him under a conservatorship, saying the musician is unable to care for himself following his wife’s death in January.
The petition, filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, asks that the pop music legend’s publicist-manager, Jean Sievers, and his business manager, LeeAnn Hard, be appointed “co-conservators of his person”.
The assets of the 81-year-old singer-songwriter’s estate are already held in trust, according to the petition.
An accompanying declaration filed by a physician, Dr Stephen Marmer, states that Wilson suffers from a “major neurocognitive disorder” and is taking a medication for treatment of dementia.
The doctor said Wilson lacks the capacity to give informed consent to any form of medical…
