The legal battle between the widow and mother of late Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson is getting uglier, The Post has learned, with his wife refusing to attend an event in h♓er husband’s honor if his m🍒om was invited, too.
As a tribute to Thompson, who died in October after a brief battle with an aggre🔥ssive form of cancer, acting DA Eric Gonzalez plans to name the office’s main conference room afte🃏r him Tuesday, which would have been his 51st birthday, mom Clara Thompson told The Post.
Gonzalez invited both Clara, and Thomp💯son’s widow, Lu-Shawn, to the event, despite simmering bad blood between the two that became public when Thompson’s mother, an ex-cop, filed court papers claiming her daughter-in-law forced Thompson into signing a deathbed will that cut out the rest of the family.
A source said that when Lu-Shawn found out Clara was also invited, the widow refused to come to the unveiling. T♓o appease Lu-Shawn, Gonzalezꩵ reluctantly disinvited his mentor’s mom, the source said.
“About 10 days ago my daughter got an invitati🧔on to the dedication,” said🗹 Clara, a retired NYPD officer. “And then on Friday, they said we couldn’t come.”
The grieving mother added that she received the shocking neܫ👍ws in a text from Gregory Thomas, senior executive for the Brooklyn DA’s Law Enforcement Operations.
“I told him that I was very, very upset that this was going to happen and that we as family members were not going to be abl๊e to come. I told him I was disappointed, and he said he was only the messenger,” she said sadly.
“I’m very hurt,” Clara told The Post. “I can’t believe th🦹ey would do this.”
Clara and Lu-Shawn have been locked in a bitter court battle since December, when the disgruntled mom alleged in court papers that her daughter-in-law was guilty of “unbridled spending” — and that🌠 her son had “essentially cut her off financially” before he was coerced by Lu-Shawn into ripping up a 2008 will and leaving her $750,000.
The 20꧟08 will left sizable amounts of money to everyone but Lu-Shawn, who was bequeathed their multimillion-dollar Brooklyn brownstone and “tangible personal property.”
The case is pending.
Clara says she has no plan൲s to crash the dedication ceremony, but will spend Tꦦuesday “thinking about my son, what he meant to me, and wishing that he was still here.”
A spokeswoman for📖 Gonzalez said: “This event is being held to honor DA Thompson and we want to keep the focus on 𝄹him and his legacy.”
Lu-Shawn’s lawyer did not return a message.