
Tenisha Warner filed a lawsuit July 20 against Pamela Warner, trustee of the Warner Family Trust, seeking over $1.2 million from a prenuptial agreement.
Tenisha Warner, the widow of actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, filed a lawsuit July 20 against his mother, Pamela Warner, seeking more than $1.2 million from the Warner Family Trust.
The complaint, obtained by TMZ, claims the late Cosby Show star failed to meet financial commitments from a prenuptial agreement signed days before the couple married in May 2022. Those commitments included maintaining a $1 million life insurance policy naming Tenisha as beneficiary, funding a Roth IRA, making annual tax-free gifts of $16,000, and paying her a monthly $5,000 salary for serving as his assistant and chief of staff, according to The New York Post's Page Six.
The lawsuit alleges the obligations were never fully satisfied before Warner died. Tenisha now seeks payment from the trust administered by Pamela Warner.
Neither Pamela Warner nor representatives for the trust have responded publicly. Page Six reported requests for comment were not immediately returned.
Warner died on July 20, 2025, at 54, after drowning while vacationing in Costa Rica. Authorities ruled the death accidental after he was caught in a powerful ocean current.
The lawsuit marks the first major legal challenge involving Warner's estate since his passing. The claims remain allegations not yet adjudicated.
Warner, best known for playing Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, later starred in Malcolm & Eddie, Reed Between the Lines, Suits, and The Resident. He also won a Grammy in 2015 for Best Traditional R&B Performance.
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