{"id":2463204,"date":"2026-06-17T03:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2463204"},"modified":"2026-06-17T03:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:28:42","slug":"buffy-star-nicholas-brendons-handwritten-will-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/buffy-star-nicholas-brendons-handwritten-will-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffy Star Nicholas Brendon&#8217;s Handwritten Will Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/buffy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em><\/a> alum <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/nicholas-brendon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nicholas Brendon<\/strong><\/a> allegedly left \u201ceverything\u201d he owned to his twin brother, <strong>Kelton Donovan Schultz<\/strong>, following his death in March.<\/p>\n<p>According to legal documents filed by Kelton, 55, on Monday, June 15, and obtained by <em>Us Weekly<\/em>, an alleged handwritten will was drafted by Brendon prior to his death at age 54.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged will, included in Kelton\u2019s filing, captures text on a piece of paper that reads, \u201cMy will. Sarah gets nothing. Kel gets everything. He can figure it out.\u201d The docs state that ex-girlfriend <strong>Sarah Marker<\/strong> is one of four potential beneficiaries of the estate along with Brendon\u2019s parents, <strong>Robert<\/strong> and <strong>Kathleen Schultz<\/strong>, and <strong>Kelton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The late actor did not have a spouse or children, and the docs confirm that there is no current estimate regarding the value of Brendon\u2019s estate. The docs also show that Robert and Kathleen both declined to \u201cact as administrator\u201d of Brendon\u2019s estate, both nominating Kelton instead.<\/p>\n<p>Brendon\u2019s family confirmed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-star-nicholas-brendon-dead-at-54\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his death<\/a> to <em>Us<\/em> in a March 20 statement, noting that he died in his sleep. \u201cWe are heartbroken to share the passing of our brother and son, Nicholas Brendon,\u201d the statement read. \u201cMost people know Nicky for his work as an actor and for the characters he brought to life over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement continued, \u201cHe was passionate, sensitive, and endlessly driven to create. Those who truly knew him understood that his art was one of the purest reflections of who he was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The following month, <em>Us<\/em> confirmed via an autopsy report that Brendon\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/buffy-alum-nicholas-brendons-cause-of-death-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cause of death<\/a> was determined as atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease, with acute pneumonia and previous myocardial infarction (heart attack) as contributing factors. (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/arteriosclerosis-atherosclerosis\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20350569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayo Clinic<\/a> states that atherosclerosis occurs when fat, cholesterol and other substances build up on the artery walls, causing them to narrow and lock blood flow. Acute pneumonia is a sudden-onset infection that causes \u201crespiratory symptoms and signs,\u201d per the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC7152347\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Library of Medicine<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Brendon was best known for portraying Xander Harris during all seven seasons of <em>Buffy<\/em>, which premiered on The WB in 1997 before moving to UPN for its final two seasons until 2003.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Brendon publicly revealed that he had suffered a heart attack one year prior and that he had been diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. Amid facing multiple legal charges, including felony domestic violence and public intoxication over the years, in addition to being booked into jail multiple times, Brendon also underwent several spinal surgeries before his death.<\/p>\n<p>He also suffered from ongoing emotional turmoil, as detailed via an Instagram post in April 2023. \u201cSorry for the extra long disappearing act. After two spinal surgeries and a heart attack, I\u2019ve had multiple doctor appointments to juggle and dealing with health insurance and pre-approvals feels nearly as emotionally exhausting and painful as dealing with my actual injuries,\u201d he wrote at the time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Nicholas Brendon allegedly left \u201ceverything\u201d he owned to his twin brother, Kelton Donovan Schultz, following his death in March. According to legal documents filed by Kelton, 55, on Monday, June 15, and obtained by Us Weekly, an alleged handwritten will was drafted by Brendon prior to his death at age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2354101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,25601,21913],"class_list":["post-2463204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-deaths","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Valleys-Zack-Warns-Theres-More-Amanda-West-Drama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463205,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463204\/revisions\/2463205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}