Hulk Hogan had his daughter, Brooke, removed from his will two years before he died of cardiac arrest at his Florida estate, it has been revealed.
The WWE legend who died at the age of 71 inside his Clearwater, Florida, home in July, left behind a fortune worth $US5 million ($A7.5 million), according to his son, Nick Hogan, who is listed as his father’s sole beneficiary.
Nick, 35, filed documents on September 9 asking to be named as the co-personal representative of his father’s estate, alongside a man named Terry McCoy, as first reported by Us Weekly.
According to Realtor, the court has since signed off on his request.
In that filing, Nick claimed his father, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, had a sizeable fortune when he died, including $US200,000 ($A300,000) worth of cryptocurrency, $US799,000 ($A1.2 million) in personal and intellectual property, and his right to publicity, which is valued at $US4 million ($A6 million).
Additionally, Nick mentions a potential medical malpractice lawsuit that is believed to refer to a case that his father’s third wife, Sky Daily, is reportedly planning to launch against a surgeon who operated on the wrestler’s neck in May 2025.
Furthermore, the court filing notes Hogan’s will was originally executed in 2016, and several amendments were then made in 2017, 2021, 2022, and in July 2023, when he removed Brooke as a beneficiary.
However, the court documents make no mention of the wrestler’s real estate portfolio — leaving the future of his expansive Florida estate unknown.
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Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan and daughter Brooke in 2006. Picture: Ralph Notaro/Getty Images
The sports star, whose full name was Terry Gene Bollea, was found dead inside his expansive dwelling in July. Picture: nickhogan/Instagram
Hogan’s impressive abode was made up of two adjacent beachfront properties he purchased several years apart in an affluent area of Clearwater.
The first dwelling was purchased for $US3.3 million ($A5 million) in 2012 — three years after he split from his first spouse, Linda, with whom he had two children.
The wrestling icon bought the house next door for $US1.6 million ($A2.4 million) in 2016, however both properties are now worth a combined $US11 million ($A16.6 million), according to estimates.
The first of the two homes, which was used by Hogan as his primary residence for many years, features five bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms.
The second abode offered a much smaller retreat with four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Records show that both properties are registered to an LLC and trust linked to Hogan and ex-wife Jennifer, suggesting that there may be a slightly more complex legal battle to determine who gets a share of the estate.
Hogan died at the age of 71 after suffering from cardiac arrest inside his Clearwater, Florida, home. Picture: Google Maps
According to a previous report by Us Weekly, those kinds of legal entanglements are what prompted Hogan’s daughter to be written out of his will — with the one-time singer’s husband, Steve Oleksy, claiming shortly after the sports star’s death that Brooke requested to be removed from the document in 2023.
Brooke and her father had been estranged for some time in the lead-up to his death — however Oleksy said that she had done her utmost to “uphold her dad’s best interests” during that time.
However, Oleksy noted much of Hogan’s fortune came from a lawsuit filed against the news website Gawker, which leaked portions of a sex tape made by the wrestler in 2013.
That tape featured comments made by Hogan about his daughter and a former boyfriend.
In 2016, Hogan was awarded $31 million in damages as a result of the leak, and Oleksy said that Brooke wanted to make no claim to any share of the money that had come from that settlement, even after her father’s death.
The news came just weeks after his wife, Sky, fiercely denied rumours that the sports star was in a coma. Picture: mrs.sky.hogan/Instagram
“That money does not represent accomplishments in the ring — the majority of it came at the expense of my wife’s dignity,” Oleksy told Us Weekly in July.
“It was built on hurtful comments about her and her past relationship, which caused pain not only to her, but to many other families.
“While one life was positively changed forever from a financial standpoint, the true victims never received a direct apology — and, despite the life-altering embarrassment, they never received or asked for a single dollar in compensation.”
He added: “No amount of money can erase that pain or restore what was taken.”
Soon after her father’s death, Brooke herself opened up about how their relationship had crumbled — explaining that their rift was not the result of a “big fight,” but rather a cumulation of hurtful conversations and interactions over a span of several years.
“My father and I never ‘fought.’ It was a series of phone calls no one will ever hear, know, or understand,” she wrote on Instagram, noting that she and her husband moved down to Florida so that she could be closer to her father — only for the wrestler to begin cutting her out of his life.
“Everything started getting covered in a thick veil. It was like there was a force field around him that I couldn’t get through,” she explained.
“During the last two years, I had to step away to protect my heart.”
Parts of this story first appeared in Realtor and was republished with permission.
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