Is Shannon Price shopping around photos of Gary Coleman from the days before and—much more disturbingly—hours after his death?
Depends who you ask.
Reports have been circulating that Price is not only selling such photos, but enlisted the help of a production company to stage the pictures and even posed in a few of the shots herself.
The photos of Coleman in his hospital bed, with tubes attached to his body, were according to TMZ, sold to an unspecified tabloid for possible publication as early as this week (we'll find out in a couple days which magazine, exactly, had the lowest asking price for its soul).
The gossip site has claimed to have viewed one of the photos and fingered Price as cashing in the sale. But the rep for Coleman's admittedly financially strapped ex vehemently denies the report.
In fact, Sheilia Erickson even goes so far as to say that if any photos were taken—and to her, it's a big if—they were certainly not staged.
"No production company took pictures of Gary in the hospital," Erickson said. "Shannon would never allow that!"
Coleman's manager was equally distraught over the prospect of Price trying to exploit the actor's death, but not quite ready to dismiss the report.
"If the report is true, I find it terribly wrong and distasteful that someone would try exploiting Gary's death in this manner," John Elm said. "Shame on those who are trying to profit from releasing such images."
And on those who print them.
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