Casey Kasem is finally being laid to rest.
The radio legend will be buried in Oslo, Norway, after passing away at the age of 82 in Gig Harbor, Washington on June 15, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The news was confirmed by Logan Clarke, a private investigator hired by Kasem's daughter, Kerri Kasem.
Norwegian Newspaper VG was also the first to report of the radio legend's new burial site, adding that Kasem's body would be interred at one of Oslo's 20 cemeteries. According to the newspaper, Wenche Madsen Eriksson, a government official, was quoted saying, "It is arranged. He's going to Oslo."
Before his death, the star's widow Jean Kasem and three children - Mike, Julie, and Kerri Kasem from his previous marriage to Linda Myers - were a part of an ongoing custody battle. In May, Jean Kasem took her husband's body from a Santa Monica hospital to Las Vegas without telling the children.
Kerri Kasem's spokesman, Danny Deraney, released a statement at the time saying, "We don't know what [Jean Kasem's] plans are. We just know that she wants to keep Casey away from [his] family and friends and by the looks of it, hiding from law enforcement."
Kasem eventually passed away after a long battle with Lewy body dementia. The family received a restraining order preventing Jean from cremating the star's body until an autopsy had been performed. However, Jean had already moved the former "America's Top 40" host to Montreal, despite a court order granting Kerri conservatorship over her father.
"There is no connection my dad has with Norway," Mike Kasem said, according to THR. "I don't know if Jean has any ties to Oslo. She certainly has never mentioned it in the last 35 years. Check the exhumation laws there; sounds like a possibility that is the reason she will bury him there. My dad deserves to be buried where he specifically asked to be buried: Forest Lawn. Everyone keeps asking for motives as to why Jean acts how she acts. I don't have an answer."
