Sumner Redstone’s ex-girlfriend Manuela Herzer has indicated that she wants a new trial regarding the mental competency of the 93-year-old Viacom mogul.
After they failed to sway a Los Angeles judge, who ruled last month that Redstone “is presumed to have capacity” to remove Herzer as his healthcare agent, attorneys for Herzer filed paperwork citing new evidence and conflicting statements from Sumner’s daughter Shari.
“On behalf of Manuela Herzer, we have today notified the trial court of possible grounds for a new trial. Primarily, we believe that there is newly-discovered evidence since the trial that significantly corroborates our arguments that Sumner Redstone is mentally incompetent, Redstone was unduly influenced by his daughter Shari Redstone to get rid of Manuela in her plot to take over CBS and Viacom, and Shari Redstone is unfit to serve as her father’s health care agent,” Herzer’s lawyers said in a statement.