Ex-wife and widow of Lord of the Rings voice coach Andrew Jack fight over £100,000 life insurance

The ex-wife and the widow of a Lord of the Rings voice coach have become locked in an ‘unfortunate Mexican standoff’ over his £100,000 life insurance payout – with each claiming he no longer loved the other.

Top British dialect coach and actor Andrew Jack created the Middle-earth accents for the movies and taught them to the cast of the trilogy, including Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom and Elijah Wood.

During a stellar career, he also worked on four Star Wars films, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and dozens of other blockbusters.

When he died, aged 76, from Covid-19 in March 2020, he was married to Australian voice coach Gabrielle Rogers. But he had only recently divorced his British ex, Paula Jack.

Now the two women are fighting over who gets his £100,000 insurance payout, with his…