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His widow did not provide consent [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/OttaviaBourdain/status/14158894550057164...

She's not his widow, she's his estranged ex-wife.

I should hope people's ex-wives don't get authority over their lives later (unless it's related to kids/shared-assets/etc).

The family giving consent is way more relevant.

That’s a response to that the movie people stated they cleared the scenes with his widow.

> She's not his widow, she's his estranged ex-wife.

That's incorrect. They were still married when he died and most of Bourdain's estate was left to their daughter with Ottavia overseeing it. "The family," in this case, is Ottavia and Ariadne Bourdain.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/07/06/anthon...

From TFA:

> estranged wife Ottavia Busia-Bourdain

He left her in charge of the trust/etc because she's still the mother of his child, and therefore a major part of his life, but they weren't together.

Fine. Estranged widow. The point is if anyone has control of his legacy, it's her, and the director claims to have consulted his widow which couldn't really be anyone other than her, which means one of them is lying about giving the go ahead to do the deepfake voiceover.

I don’t think you count as someone’s widow if you split up before they die.

Cool, great to get that clarified but also good to see I didn’t invent the fact they claimed to have asked.

That wasn't the fact that you stated.

>As I understand it (I read this on Twitter so massive grain of salt etc.) the family concented to this explicitly.

This is the "fact". Half of it is a caveat to take it with a grain of salt.

We don't know that anyone lied. The guy had two ex-wives and a girlfriend. Perhaps they didn't ask enough family members for someone's taste. But as others noted, an objection from one ex-wife doesn't really make that case very strongly.

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