[The Jayman]

Three weeks after Owen's death, Hart and the Hart family launched a death lawsuit against the WWF, which was settled out of court for approximately $18 million on November 2, 2000.[2] She used $2 million of the settlement to establish the Owen Hart Foundation while retaining the rest for herself.[3] She has managed the foundation since 1999.[1] Some of the money also went into trust funds for her children, until they were 21.[4] After the lawsuit, Martha separated herself from the majority of the Hart family.[4] She cites Bret, Keith, Alison, Stu, and Helen Hart as the only Hart family members who sided with her during the battle.[4] She criticized those family members who continued to work for the WWF.[4] There is real-life tension between Martha and her sister-in-law Diana Hart-Smith.[1] Martha sued Diana for $19 million and claims that Diana's book, Under the Mat: Inside Wrestling's Greatest Family, is both slanderous and libelous, and had it removed from markets, and everywhere books are sold.[1]