STAR Trek icon Nichelle Nichols died heartbroken in remote New Mexico — far from her beloved California home — as her son Kyle Johnson and ex-manager Gilbert Bell continued their ferocious four-year battle over her $10 million fortune.
The groundbreaking actress, killed by heart failure at 89, was TV’s first Black female sex symbol, playing Lt. Uhura on the iconic 1960s sci-fi series. She shared a historic interracial kiss with her skipper, Capt. Kirk, played by William Shatner, in a landmark episode.
Nichelle, who died in Silver City on July 31, spent the last years in a conservatorship controlled by her 71-year-old son, who “sold her house right out from under her” for $2.2 million, charges Bell.
One of Nichelle’s friends tells GLOBE: “She wanted to die in her home…