Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa named each other in their wills

Details of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa's wills reveal they each wanted to leave their estates to each other.

In Hackman's will, the Oscar-winning actor named Arakawa as the personal representative of his estate and the recipient of his "entire estate" in her role as the successor trustee of the Gene Hackman Living Trust.

Arakawa's will details that her estate would go to the trustee for Hackman's trust, should her husband outlive her.

Both estates will now go into a trust. Without trust documents, it is unclear how Hackman's assets will be divided and among whom.

"Whomever acts as trustee will be bound by the actual terms of the decedents' trust documents and shouldn't be able to influence the distribution of assets. It will be the trustee's job to simply carry out the terms of the trust," says San Diego estate attorney and certified public accountant Michael P. McCarthy, who is not affiliated with the case. "Normally this is done privately and without formal court supervision."

Hackman also appointed "the remainder of the trust estate" of a separate trust that dates back to September 1994, called the GeBe Revocable Trust, in Arakawa's favor.

The will, dated June 7, 2005, also notes he has three children from his prior marriage to Faye Maltese: Christopher Hackman, Elizabeth Hackman and Leslie Allen.

Hackman and Arakawa were found dead last month in their Santa Fe, New Mexico home.

Arakawa, 65, died from Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare disease that is contracted by contact with mouse droppings. Hackman, 95, had heart disease and complications caused by Alzheimer's disease and died from natural causes.

Arakawa died on Feb. 11 and Hackman died a week later, investigators said.

(USA Today)