Movie producer Bradley Thomas filed for divorce & custody of kids before aristocrat wife fell from balcony, records show

AN Oscar-nominated movie shaper was divorcing his woman astatine the clip she plunged to her decease from the precocious level of a Los Angeles edifice successful January, The U.S. Sun has learned.

Movie mogul Bradley Thomas, who was nominated for an Oscar for Killers of the Flower Moon, filed for divorcement from English heiress Isabelle Thomas 4 months earlier successful September 2023.

On September 15, 2023, the 58-year-old, twice-married shaper requested a divorcement citing "irreconcilable differences" and asked for ineligible and carnal custody of the couple's three-year-old twins, tribunal papers reveal.

Isabelle, who was 39, was told she had 30 days to record a response, and she was not allowed to instrumentality her children retired of state, according to the documents.

Isabelle did not be a lawsuit reappraisal league connected December 13 astatine the Superior Court of California successful Los Angeles.

Court filings authorities that lawyers for Bradley requested "additional clip to service Respondent and record Proof of Service of Summons" astatine the hearing, and the lawsuit was placed connected hold.

Isabelle ne'er filed a response.

DEATH OF AN HEIRESS

On January 29, she was recovered dead successful the excavation country of the Hotel Angeleno successful Brentwood aft falling from an upper-floor balcony.

Los Angeles County Medical Examiners announced that Isabelle had "multiple traumatic injuries" and recorded the decease arsenic a suicide.

The lawsuit is listed arsenic closed, though the section states that the afloat study volition not beryllium disposable until it has been "finalized."

It is understood that Isabelle did not permission a note.

On February 1, 3 days aft his wife's death, attorneys for Bradley filed a petition to disregard the divorcement lawsuit without prejudice.

FINAL PUBLIC APPEARANCES

Mystery and heartbreak inactive situation Isabelle's death.

Although the tribunal papers authorities that the mates separated connected September 5, 2023, they were pictured unneurotic afterward, including astatine the BAFTA beverage enactment connected January 13, 2024.

Writing aft her death, Deadline newsman Mike Fleming Jr. besides said helium had conscionable seen the mates astatine an Apple Golden Globes party.

It's unclear whether the mates were trying to salvage the matrimony astatine the clip of her death.

Bradley has been a palmy shaper since the 1990s arsenic portion of the squad down Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary, and Me Myself & Irene

FAMILY MOURNS

Isabelle was the girl of Henry Lawrence, 7th Baronet of Lucknow, and his ex-wife Penelope Nunan.

Speaking astatine the clip of her death, Lawrence told The Sun, "I person perfectly nary thought wherefore this happened oregon what was troubling her. It is truthful awful. [...] I was past successful interaction with her a mates of weeks ago."

Isabelle's mother, Penelope, was arsenic distraught, telling The U.S. Sun astatine the time, "This is the worst imaginable nightmare...my girl is joined to an American who is successful the spotlight, and helium is inactive trying to woody with it. It is simply a precise bittersweet event."

In a statement, Isabelle's household paid tribute to her arsenic the "light of our lives."

"She was courageous and took each life’s opportunities without fear, showering emotion and kindness connected her friends, family, and children on the way," they wrote.

"Her projects were arsenic divers arsenic her passions, reflecting a curiosity astir radical and our civilization that inspired everyone fortunate capable to walk clip with her."

"We retrieve her arsenic a psyche mate, beauteous daughter, sister, devoted parent and wife."

Isabelle was calved successful Bath, England, successful 1984 and was privately educated earlier graduating from Oxford University with a grade successful biologic sciences.

After graduating, Isabelle advised erstwhile British Prime Minister David Cameron connected his Tech City start-up initiative.

She was besides a DJ and socialite who was friends with celebrities specified arsenic vocalist Amy Winehouse and histrion Jameela Jamil.

Isabelle aboriginal moved to Los Angeles to prosecute film-making, yet producing a documentary connected kindness and different astir pickleball, per Deadline.

She joined Bradley successful 2018, and they had 2 children, Poppy and Grace, who were calved successful 2020. Isabelle was besides the stepmother to Bradley's 2 older children.

The U.S. Sun has reached retired to Bradley's attorneys for remark connected the divorcement filing.

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