Good morning, it’s Tuesday, March 31 and you can expect a dappling of morning fog, a profusion of clouds and perhaps some scattered afternoon showers.
In today’s newsletter, we have a dispute over David Lynch’s estate, a Dodgers parking hack, perishing poppies and more.
1. David Lynch’s children are wrangling over his estate.
More than a year after David Lynch’s death, the director’s four children are fighting over his sizable fortune. The fractious dispute is set to spill into a Los Angeles courtroom this week.
Lynch, among the most influential filmmakers of his time and the creator of Twin Peaks and director of Mullholland Drive, died in January 2025 at age 78, leaving behind three adult children from his first three marriages and a teenaged daughter from his fourth marriage.
The auteur’s will directed that the bulk of his estate be placed in a trust to be split evenly among his children. None of his heirs dispute that; their fight concerns how the trust should pay for Lynch’s youngest daughter’s private school tuition and other support.
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