John Amos' daughter Shannon revealed that she learned of her father's death through the media.
“We are devastated and have many questions about how this happened 45 days ago, learning about it through the media like so many of you,” Shannon Amos wrote in a caption to a post on her official Instagram account.
Amos, best known for playing patriarch James Evans Sr. Good timesdied in Los Angeles on August 21 at the age of 84. His death, from natural causes, was announced by his son KC on October 1.
Shannon Amos added on Instagram: “This should be a time to honor and celebrate his life, yet we are struggling to navigate the wave of emotions and uncertainty surrounding his passing. However, there is a semblance of peace in knowing that my father is finally free.”
The Hollywood journalistin a November 2023 report, lifted the veil on the bitter battle between Amos' children as they fought each other over their father's care and his inheritance, with Shannon Amos publicly accusing her brother KC of elder abuse, a a statement he denied.
In that November story, Shannon Amos, an entertainment executive turned healer, recounted THR provided extensive documentation to law enforcement in Colorado and New Jersey to investigate KC's allegations of elder abuse, which alleges that over time her brother consolidated authority over his father and his affairs, as well as isolated him from members of his inner circle: “This has not only affected me, but also his grandchildren, the people he has worked with, and the friends he has had for decades.
Shannon Amos argued that her brother had impersonated their father in communications, ignored her medical needs, mismanaged her finances, and exploited and eroded her inheritance, all of which her brother rejected.
KC, who developed a documentary about his father titled America's fathersaid THR that his sister had engaged in a baroque crusade of defamation in hopes of making him seem, as he puts it, “unfit.”
Shannon Amos' full message on Instagram is below.
I am speechless… Our family received the heartbreaking news that my father, John Allen Amos, Jr., transitioned on August 21st.
We are devastated and have many questions about how this happened 45 days ago, learning about it through the media like so many of you.
This should be a time to honor and celebrate his life, yet we are struggling to navigate the wave of emotions and uncertainties surrounding his passing. However, there is a semblance of peace in knowing that my father is finally free.
My family and I deeply appreciate the outpouring of love, calls and texts. Please continue to keep our family in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you.