The widow of San Diego Padres proprietor Peter Seidler sued two of his brothers on Monday as she goals to realize management of the membership.
Sheel Kamal Seidler filed a grievance in Texas probate court docket claiming that she and her three youngsters have been “successfully ostracized” from the Padres since Peter Seidler died in November 2023.
She additional alleged that brothers Bob and Matt Seidler, trustees of the Seidler belief, conspired to promote themselves belief belongings at “far-below-market costs” in a break from their fiduciary duties.
Based on Sheel Seidler, Peter Seidler mentioned earlier than his dying that his want was for her to take management of the Padres, adopted by their youngsters. Sheel Seidler mentioned she and her youngsters maintain the most important stake in possession.
“They (the brothers) try to erase Peter’s imaginative and prescient and legacy,” the grievance alleges, “in addition to falsely solid themselves as Peter’s true heirs.”
Amongst her different accusations, she mentioned Robert and Matthew Seidler have labored to exclude her from charity occasions held in her late husband’s honor and have “made clear” that she and her youngsters aren’t welcome within the proprietor’s field at Petco Park.
The brothers “not solely disregarded the clear phrases and objective of the desire and belief instrument that Peter created, however additionally they have deliberately schemed to take for themselves the property and Seidler trusts’ worth rights and belongings,” the grievance states. “They’ve accomplished so by deceptive Sheel, partaking in conflicted transactions and egregious acts of self-dealing, and when Sheel started expressing concern and questioning their actions, they responded by demeaning and trying to intimidate her — together with through the use of belief belongings to pay legal professionals to threaten her into submission and silence.”
As soon as a low-spending small-market group within the shadow of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Padres threw monetary weight round within the remaining years of Peter Seidler’s life. The membership’s Forbes valuation grew to $1.78 billion final yr, rating seventeenth in Main League Baseball.
Nevertheless, the group in the reduction of its payroll in 2024 after its media contract fell by means of through Diamond Sports activities Group’s chapter. However the Padres nonetheless fielded a aggressive group, gained 93 video games and made the postseason.
–Discipline Stage Media
