Beeka family feud takes ugly turn

CYRIL Beeka's eldest daughter, Meggan, has been accused of defaming the trustees of a multimillion-rand trust fund left for her and her half-sister Laura.

This comes after her request for an increase in monthly payments from the trust fund was met with threats of legal action from the fund's trustees.

Beeka's younger brother, Edward, and Good Hope FM DJ Dino "The Godfather" Williams - both trustees of the MegganLaura Family Trust - have accused Meggan of making "slanderous allegations" published in the Sunday World in June.

The article was about a Beeka family feud over payments made to the beneficiaries of the fund.

Beeka set up a R5.2-million trust fund for Meggan (23) and Laura (18) in 2001.

He was killed in a drive-by shooting in Cape Town in 2011.

Last month, attorney Ighsaan Sadien, acting on behalf of Edward, Williams and the trust, sent a letter to Meggan, Laura and several editors of Cape Town publications.

The letter reads: "The trustees are extremely hurt by the conduct of Meggan Beeka.

"The apparent objective is to impugn their integrity in order to get them to pay large sums of money."

The statement is believed to be in response to Meggan's request for R80000 from the trust to buy dog kennels so that she could start a proper dog training business.

Sadien also accuses Meggan of approaching "certain journalists" to make slanderous allegations against Edward and Williams.

This was in response to Meggan's claims that she was receiving R3000 a month from the trust, barely enough to live on.

In his letter, Sadien says Edward and Williams appointed him to establish whether Beeka's two other children were entitled to payments from the trust.

During the June interview, Meggan said she wanted an opportunity to make her own money so that she would stop relying on the trust, because the money wasn't enough.

In his letter, Sadien says he has been "instructed" to set the record straight and that his clients would "continually act in a transparent manner and make all documentation available before any further stories are published".

But this offer was seemingly the preserve of earmarked publications as Sadien ducked pointed questions posed to him by the Sunday World.

When Sunday World approached Meggan for an interview in June, she had not publicly spoken out since her father's death.

At her rundown cottage on a smallholding in Centurion, Tshwane, she told Sunday World that her life had taken a turn for the worse.

She has been living on handouts and the roof over her head has been provided by a Good Samaritan.

"I am not complaining because I have a roof over my head. But if my dad saw how I live now it would break his heart. My dad always said: 'You'll never have to worry about anything when I am gone.' But I'm on my own now."

She refused to comment further in the light of the possible legal action taken against her.