Tony Hsieh’s next of kin are reportedly having trouble pinpointing the source of a mysterious will that was mailed to a Las Vegas courthouse earlier this year — triggering a legal battle over the $500 million fortune left by the late tech entrepreneur.

Hsieh (pronounced “SHAY”), who gained fame as the tech executive who resuscitated online shoe retailer Zappos before it was sold to Amazon for $1.2 billion in 2009, died from injuries sustained during a house fire in 2020.

Robert Armstrong, a Nevada-based estate planner who had never met Hsieh, was shocked to learn that he was named as an executor of the estate in the surprise will. 3

On Tuesday, a Las Vegas judge appointed Armstrong and another attorney, Mark Ferrario, as special administrators of the estate, according to the W

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