Attorney for late Butch Stewart denies document forgery allegation in estate dispute

Trevor Patterson, the attorney who represented late hotel mogul Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, has rejected “entirely” a claim that he forged a document to add the US-based family of the hotelier as beneficiaries of a trust intended to benefit only two of his children.

In an affidavit, which is in support of an application by Adam and his siblings, Jaime Stewart-McConnell and Brian Jardim, they argued that since their father’s death in January 2021, no progress has been made in administering his estate according to his wishes.

They are asking the Supreme Court to remove the four executors of his estate, namely Stewart’s common-law wife, Cheryl Hammersmith-Stewart; two of his lifelong friends, Hugh Martin and Elizabeth Desnoes; as well as Patterson.