Jack Kent Cooke’s Son Trying To Rid House Of Father’s Widow Still In Mansion, She Wants $10,000 A Month And A Maid Until The Dust Settles

First, Jack Kent Cooke cut her out of his will. Now, the widow of the late Washington Redskins owner may be bounced out of Marbella, the $2 million house she and Cooke shared in Washington.

Cooke’s son and the other executors of his estimated $825 million estate told Marlena Ramallo Cooke to leave the house, which has three maids, and give up her Jaguar, her BMW and other luxuries, Mrs. Cooke claimed in a court filing.

John Kent Cooke, the only surviving son of the mercurial multimillionaire, said all of the property belongs to the estate of his father, who died April 6 at age 84.

Mrs. Cooke, 44, was written out of the will 13 weeks before Cooke died. She sued Cooke’s estate on June 6, claiming she is owed as much as a third of it. Her suit was filed in Fauquier County, where Cooke had a farm he claimed as his main residence.

In the documents she filed Wednesday, she complained that the estate was bent on revenge. Her attorney claims that she got the eviction notice from the estate’s lawyers less than 6 hours after she filed the suit.

The estate’s lawyers claim Mrs. Cooke has been a guest in the gated mansion in an exclusive neighborhood of Washington, and as of June 30 that “courtesy” is revoked.

In the same letter, the estate lawyers cut off Mrs. Cooke’s credit card and fired her from her $175,000 a year job with Jack Kent Cooke Inc., the Cooke empire holding company.

Brendan V. Sullivan Jr., Mrs. Cooke’s attorney, responded by filing a petition that seeks to allow her to keep one maid and draw a $10,000 monthly allowance from the estate until the will is settled.

Sullivan, best known as Oliver North’s lawyer during the Iran-Contra scandal, refuses comment on the Cooke matter.