What Can We Learn from Jerry Springer? The Internet was duped by a Jerry Springer will-reading video which made it look like Springer fathered two secret children and then left them his entire estate. Feeling like a plot ripped from a particularly scandalous episode of his show, after Springer’s passing in April of 2023, a […]
Read More…What Can We Learn From Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom? We already learned a lot from Katy Perry in her last real estate dispute (remember when the nun died at the Courthouse?), but this one may be The One That Got Away from her. It turns out that in 2020, Perry and her still-husband, Orlando […]
Read More…What Can We Learn From Kevin Costner? I’m clutching my pearls over here! Kevin Costner’s wife, Christine Baumgartner, recently filed for divorce from the Yellowstone star after 19 years of marriage. Baumgartner is citing geographic locations as one of the main reasons for the split. It turns out that the cowboy drama films in Utah […]
Read More…This is a strange one, even for this newsletter. A woman claiming to be Jerry Jones’s daughter (and her mother) are attempting to get a signed settlement agreement (from 1998) with Jones to be ruled as invalid. The agreement in question was allegedly to address Jones’s paternity of the woman. The woman (and her mother) […]
Read More…A story from the 17th Century! Margaret Brent was approximately thirty-seven years old when she arrived in Maryland in 1638. At Governor Leonard Calvert’s deathbed in 1647, Margaret was appointed his executrix (love that word) to manage not only his estate but also Maryland’s affairs and was instructed to “Take all and pay all”. Key […]
Read More…Football player turned actor, Carl Weathers passed away at the age of 76, survived by 2 ex-wives, and two sons. Weathers’ family was pleasantly surprised (that almost never happens with this newsletter!) when they discovered a safe deposit box with over $650K IN CASH and two bank accounts with $140K! So, what can we learn […]
Read More…Stephen C. Hilbert: A Case Study in Financial Strategies Stephen C. Hilbert turned Conseco Inc. from a tiny company into a fortune 500 insurance company through acquisitions. After earning over $172M, the company debts along with his lavish lifestyle (chartering a private jet for friends to St. Martin for his sixth wife’s birthday party) left […]
Read More…It was reported that while Meryl Streep and Don Gummer celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary on Sept. 30, they’ve also been separated for more than 6 years! The two reportedly respect and love each other (blah blah blah) but have chosen to live their lives apart. So, what can we learn from a situation when […]
Read More…Actors Robert De Niro, age 79, and Al Pacino, age 83, just announced that they were expecting a baby! Yes, octogenarian fatherhood is a real thing. So real, in fact, that underwriters providing title insurance in Florida sometimes request an affidavit stating that the owners of the property in question were not survived by a […]
Read More…Introduction: This one is just too juicy to pass up. The question for the Courts to decide is, “is it foreseeable that people are going to have sex in the car?” What has our society come to? LOL!! This question will most likely make its way to the Supreme Court, people! Strap in! The Incident: […]
Read More…What Can We Learn From Salma Hayek? Actress (and my doppelganger?) Salma Hayek and her billionaire French husband, François-Henri Pinault, have established a trust for their only daughter together, Valentina Paloma Pinault. The trust allegedly holds $12M and includes some real property. We can conclude that Hayek and Pinault (as the CEO of a company […]
Read More…R&B singer Angela Bofill died recently at her daughter’s home in California. The 70-year-old’s passing was confirmed several times by friends and family, as the “I Try” singer was thought to have passed several times already! Back in 2020, she cleverly posted on Facebook, “My Manager Rich Engel just informed me that I died. Thank […]
Read More…Pierce Brosnan became a widower at age 38. His wife of 17 years, Cassandra Harris, died from ovarian cancer in 1991. Brosnan and Harris had one son together, and he adopted her two children from a previous marriage, Charlotte and Christopher, after their father died in 1986. Tragically, Charlotte Harris also died of ovarian cancer […]
Read More…Jay Corley, founder of Monticello Vineyards, died in 2016 leaving behind his seven children to run his $30M winery. The kids aligned into two camps, one wanting to keep the vineyard in family hands and the other desirous (love that word) to sell it to the highest bidder. The years of scheming and plotting finally […]
Read More…What Can We Learn From Sandra Bullock? It’s no secret that she’s not my favorite (you can’t love them all), but the thespian, Sandra Bullock, is apparently an excellent real estate investor. The movie star owns at least 17 properties located all over the US, a mix of residential and commercial investments that include a […]
Read More…The Case of Estate Fraud in Kenya This story comes to us all the way from Kenya where the late business tycoon, Balkrishna Ramji Haribhai Devani’s daughter is facing charges for allegedly forging a codicil to her father’s last will to exclude her two sisters from their inheritance. Dinta actually faces five counts related to […]
Read More…In 2013, actress Sharon Stone was sued by a former housekeeper, for alleged unlawful termination of employment after being injured on the job. The housekeeper claimed to be under “extreme and severe physical pain” after loading groceries into Stone’s car. Allegedly, Stone disregarded the employee’s doctor’s orders and proceeded to call her “crazy” and “stupid” […]
Read More…Introduction Hotelier and billionaire, Gordon “Butch” Stewart, 79, died on Jan. 4, 2021, in Miami, Florida. The father of eight had several trusts set up for his various family members and an estimated estate value of $6B with around $95M to be distributed to a group of mostly elderly beneficiaries. The estate is heavily contested […]
Read More…What Can We Learn From A Snowbird “Doc”? A Wyoming resident (and part-time Floridian), chiropractor Donald “Doc” Taylor passed away in August of 2021 at the age of 81. Leaving behind his estranged son, Chadwick, Doc took the trouble of drafting a comprehensive estate plan with his attorney, including a trust with a non-contest clause. […]
Read More…This past weekend, Sofia Richie, 24-year-old model influencer and designer, who is also the youngest daughter of legendary singer Lionel Richie, married Elliot Grainge, a music executive, in a star-studded event in the South of France (Hey, this could be considered our version of a royal wedding LOL.) Sofia’s previous high-profile relationship was with Scott […]
Read More…Linda Bean, granddaughter of the L.L. Bean founder, Leon Leonwood Bean (how fun would it be if the entire family had the initials L.L. Bean!), died on March 23, 2024, at the age of 82. Linda drafted a last will in August of 2022….that no one is challenging! However, the last will needed to be […]
Read More…What Can We Learn From Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry (Again)? Do I have a story for you! Gene Roddenberry’s personal life was almost as exciting as his imagination. Gene was known for his affairs with secretarial staff. While married to his first wife, Eileen, he was also in a relationship with both Majel Barrett […]
Read More…Introduction: The Legacy of Ken Hill Ken Hill, the co-founder of Grand River Enterprises (GRE), “the largest private indigenous owned company in the world”, headquartered in Canada, died unexpectedly in January 2021 in Miami, Florida at the age of 62. The burly businessman and lover of expensive cars and boats was not married at the […]
Read More…This story starts in 1990 when a fossil hunter discovered Sue, a 47-foot-long T-Rex skeleton on Maurice and Darlene Williams’ property on the Cheyenne River Reservation. The couple sold Sue at auction for $7.6M, and you can visit her at Chicago’s Field Museum next time you’re in the area. Maurice passed in 2011, and Darlene […]
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