Marlon Brando's former caregiver is taking another legal swing at his executors and the authenticity of the will that gave them control over his $22 million estate.

The three executors appeared to have put questions about the will behind them in December 2006 by settling the fraud lawsuit of Angela Borlaza for $243,750 and having her sign a confidentiality agreement. She had alleged that Brando was “incapacitated” when he signed a codicil to his will less than two weeks before his death in July 2004.

The original will appointed Brando retainers JoAn Corrales and Alice Marchak to administer his estate; the codicil replaced them with former Hollywood studio chief Mike Medavoy, accountant Larry Dressler, and Avra Douglas (a friend of Brando's daughter Rebecca).

But now Borlaza has resurfaced, filing a new suit last week in Los Angeles Superior Court in which she claims she was duped into signing the confidentiality agreement.

The agreement “is void because it was signed by individuals ... [whose] purported authority stems from a forged codicil to the true will and amendment to the trust of Marlon Brando,” the complaint, which seeks unspecified damages and declaratory relief, says.

Corrales and Marchak also accepted settlements last year of suits they filed against the estate. According to Borlaza, they were also “unlawfully defrauded and coerced” into signing confidentiality agreements and, as a result,

Plaintiff is unable to collaborate with [them] to develop and market a memoir, book, movie or mini-series, spanning approximately 40 years of the life of Marlon Brando.

Borlaza started working for Brando as a cook in 1995 and, as his caregiver, may know more about his final days than anyone else. She says she was present at his Beverly Hills home on June 18, 2004, when he purportedly signed the codicil to his will.

Plaintiff's counsel Greg J. Venturi of Santa Monica –- who has replaced the attorneys who negotiated the settlement for Borlaza -– did not respond to a request for comment about her new legal offensive. But he may have a hard time explaining why she is only now challenging the authority of the executors.

The new suit says Borlaza “did not discover the forgery [of the codicil] until on or about July 28, 2007” -- which would put her fraud claim within the statute of limitations. That seems curious since, in her earlier complaint, she said Brando was “incapacitated, confused, medicated and non-communicative at the time of the alleged signing ceremony.”

Moreover, having been trained by Brando to recognize his signature, Borlaza “is informed and believes” that he did not sign the codicil, the suit filed in June 2006 said.

Since Brando's death, the executors have sold off many of his assets. Most controversially, they made a $2-million deal with a Tahiti-based businessman who plans to develop Brando's beloved South Pacific island, Tetiaroa, as an "eco-resort."

In addition to the executors, the defendants named in Borlaza's new complaint include David J. Seeley, a Seattle attorney who worked for Brando.