Known as the Elvis Presley of France, Jean-Philippe Léo Smet, better known as Johnny Hallyday, died in 2017 with a heavily contested estate. Hallyday had a home in California, was […]
Read More…An Indian couple is suing their son, demanding that he and his wife produce either a grandchild within a year or pay them almost $940K. It turns out that the […]
Read More…The singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist, Leonard Cohen died in November 7, 2016 with an estate plan that included a trust that was amended a few times. Just this week, his […]
Read More…Stand-up comedian, author and actor, David Brenner passed in 2014 leaving behind a very funny lastwill. As to his burial instructions, he wrote, “I request a very modest burial, no […]
Read More…Known as the King of Frock’n’Roll, Gianni died at the age of 50 in 1997 but created a last will only tenmonths before his passing. His last will left his […]
Read More…This is a story about a trust fund set up by the late Albert Covelli (yes, of Youngstown), at one time one of the country’s largest McDonald’s franchise owners. After […]
Read More…If she Could Turn Back Time (lol), I’m sure Cher would have changed a few things regarding her Malibu estate project. Cher purchased the vacant lot in 1989 with the hopes […]
Read More…In New Delhi, just this week, an eight-year-old girl, Devanshi Sanghvi, heiress to one of the oldestdiamond companies, has given up her worldly luxuries to become a monk, specifically Jain […]
Read More…Do you believe in fairy tales? An Italian prince marries a woman from Texas (not me lol), makes her aprincess, and gives her a castle with art literally spilling out […]
Read More…According to data cited by the AARP, 60% of American adults do not have a will, let alone any other estate planning documents. A well-crafted estate plan should be fully […]
Read More…Just two days before her untimely passing in 1970, Janis Joplin and her attorney made a few changes to her last will. She left the bulk of her estate to […]
Read More…Nearly two years after his passing in 2020, Chadwick Boseman’s $3.8M estate is going to be distributed to his beneficiaries. The Black Panther actor did not establish a last will […]
Read More…Marilyn Monroe (fka Norma Jeane Baker) passed in 1962 with a brief 3-page last will leaving the bulk of her estate to her acting coach, Lee Strasberg. Monroe did not […]
Read More…While sitting at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts and enjoying the show, I couldn’t help but write this article in my head. Yes, I’m a nerd LOL Hamilton […]
Read More…Marvin (Michael) Lee Aday, aka Meat Loaf, passed away at the age of seventy-four with a net worth estimated at $40M. He was survived by his second wife, Deborah, and […]
Read More…Country music singer Naomi Judd passed away on April 30, 2022. Her last will was drawn up in 2017 and named her husband, musician Larry Strickland, as the executor of […]
Read More…This dispute centers around two identical pictures of Fawcett that Andy Warhol painted in the ‘80s. When Fawcett passed in 2009, her last will stated that all of her artwork […]
Read More…I love Brad Pitt, there I said it. However, Jennifer Aniston, doesn’t seem to love him as much. The couple divorced in 2005 and split up their assets including the […]
Read More…It happened in Las Vegas, where a lot of other things happen…that stay there, apparently. Candy Torres sued her former landlord, real estate broker and property manager, Allan Rothstein, for […]
Read More…Dawn Wells, best known as the girl-next-door cast away, Mary Ann on the hit show Gilligan’s Island, passed away in 2020 at the age of 82. Wells’ last will included a […]
Read More…An extremely talented actor, but not a great estate planner, Philip Seymour Hoffman, passed away in 2014 leaving behind a girlfriend and their three minor children. In an effort to […]
Read More…The former Shelbyville, Kentucky home of KFC founder, Colonel Sanders has been on the market since June of 2022. The home is being sold in bundle with a 63-year-old soul-food […]
Read More…Sixteen years after the legendary singer James Brown’s passing, we have yet another dispute involving his estate. In May of 2022, the South Carolina Supreme Court has upheld a circuit […]
Read More…Self-taught sculptor, Harvey Fite spent 37 years of his life creating Opus 40, a 6.5-acre labyrinth (LOVE that word!) with thousands of rocks, tons of patients and no cement. A […]
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