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Just months before her half-sister Nancy Motes committed suicide, JULIA ROBERTS encouraged their mother to legally drop the name Motes, The ENQUIRER can reveal.
“Julia wanted it so her mom could distance herself from not only her abusive ex-hubby Michael Motes, but also the memory of Nancy herself,” a family insider told The ENQUIRER.
As we reported in a blockbuster investigation, the star tortured Nancy, 37, to her grave with verbal abuse, taunts and bullying in shocking messages and tapes.
“Julia had her mom Betty Lou start the process of changing her name back in December, when Julia first insisted that Betty Lou cut ties with Nancy,” said the insider.