Settlement details behind a wrongful death lawsuit brought against a Hillsborough woman following the death of her daughters’ father are now being made public after the courts decided the public’s right to court documents trumped the minors’ right to privacy.Â
Tiffany Li, the Hillsborough heiress accused of assisting in the killing of the father of her children, Keith Green, will pay their two daughters $5 million each following a settlement in a wrongful death suit filed by Green’s mother, Colleen Cudd, according to Cudd’s lawyer, Duffy Magilligan with the Burlingame firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy.Â
Li was accused of forming and carrying out a plot to kill Green, a 27-year-old Millbrae resident, after the couple had separated. She was accused of luring Green to her home on West Santa Inez Avenue April 28, 2016, so her then-boyfriend, 33-year-old Kaveh Bayat, could allegedly shoot and kill him, with a friend then disposing of the body.
Li was acquitted in a jury trial in 2019 that spanned two more than months and had 12 days of jury deliberation. A jury remained deadlocked on Bayat and the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office decided not to retry the case. Olivier Adella, Li’s personal trainer, pleaded guilty to being an accessory to Green’s death after he dumped his body in a North Bay field the night of his disappearance.Â
Cudd brought the wrongful death suit against Li in 2018 on behalf of Li and Green’s daughters, ages 4 and 2 years old when Green died. The parties initially sought to keep the settlement agreement private to protect the financial privacy of the two girls but a trial court denied the request on the grounds that their right to privacy did not trump the public’s right to access court documents. That decision was upheld by the First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco and the decision was final in December of 2023.Â
The initial case and trial made waves in 2017 when Li posted bail of $35 million by putting up several Bay Area properties valued at $62 million along with $4 million in cash. Li’s family has wealth that comes from real estate construction in China.
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I didn't know Keith Green personally but I occasionally hung out with some of his friends being in San Bruno sometimes - everyone that talked about him seemed to love him to pieces. He really seemed like a genuine guy who got along with everyone. He was truly positive energy and may he rest in peace and may his legacy live on through his mother and children. Horrible things happen - but good can always come from them. God Bless his children....5M each is nowhere near the price of the life of their Father - but at the very least they will be able to prepare for their futures a bit better. Eyes are the windows to the soul - and Tiffany Li seems to be bereft of one. All i see is evil in her eyes. Its truly unsettling to look at that picture of her - even if you didn't know who Keith Green was. She orchestrated everything and everyone knows it - proof positive than money can get you anything on this planet - so pushing morality in any public sphere is a fools errand. She may have bought off the courts - but she will face punishment by The Lord for eternity.
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