What Can We Learn From Winston Churchill? One of the best known and effective dignitaries in the history of British politics Winston Churchill was a cat lover. His favorite (I’d like for you to read this with a British accent please as I’m writing it with a British accent) was an orange marmalade cat with […]
Read More…The former love birds, Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan, filed for divorce in 2018 are still at it in Court. The two are fighting over their settlement that includes profits from Tatum’s Magic Mike (mmmmmm, sorry, I forgot what I was saying there for a minute) franchise money. Dewan is alleging that Tatum “created a […]
Read More…This story comes to us from the land down under where Howard Edwin Thomas, a former banker, passed away in July of 2021. Thomas created a last will in 2011 and bequeathed (love that word!) his estate, worth around 4.5M Australian Dollars or $3M US Dollars, to his long-term friends Richard and Deborah Nightingale, who […]
Read More…Actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, were arrested in 2010 in California on burglary charges. It turns out the couple sold their California home and then attempted to move back in, without permission from the new owners. The new owners alleged that the Quaids caused $5K in damages during their invasion. The homeowners, turned […]
Read More…The Legacy of Ken Talbot: Australian mining tycoon, Ken Talbot, died in a plane crash in the Congo in 2010 leaving behind a wife, four children, and a $1B estate. Talbot’s Unique Will Requirements: In Talbot’s last will, he required his children to pass drug tests (completed by three independent doctors) to inherit his estate […]
Read More…Season 5 participant, Renee Poche (Yes, the Cutie Season!) is in a tussle with the Love Is Blind production company, Delirium TV and Netflix Inc. You may not remember her because Poche’s story was edited out of the show, and she alleges that her match, Carter Wall, was violent, emotionally abusive, and heavily relied on […]
Read More…Two of the three sisters and heirs of the Italian fashion company, Bulgari, have been fighting in thecourts for years over the family trust, estimated at $129M. The dispute is literally all over the place asone sister, Ilaria lives in Switzerland and the other sister, Veronica resides in Manhattan. The fight is so ugly, Veronica […]
Read More…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 a tax resident of California and had his (fourth) last will drafted in California. However, he was born in France, lived mostly in France and […]
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 parents paid for their son’s wedding, luxury car, pilot training program and honeymoon abroad only to be rewarded by him NOT living with them and […]
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 son and daughter, sued Cohen’s former manager Robert Kory in an attempt to remove him as the trustee of the trust. The kids are accusing […]
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 fancy box, no pillow(you think at a time like this I’m worried about a headache?), no special suit (jeans and nice shirtwill be fine, but […]
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 50% interest in the family $1B business to his then, 11- year-old niece, Allegra, daughter of his sister and business partner, Donatella. The one-page last […]
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 Albert’s death in 2014, Albert’s daughter, Annette and her attorney became the successor co-trustees of the trust. The challenge, in the Federal Cleveland court, comes […]
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 of building her lavish Italian-inspired villa, complete with tennis courts and sky-high security walls. The Malibu planning commission stalled the start of the build-out for five […]
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 Sadhvi.The 8-year-old has always led a pious life and her family reports that she’s never watched TV or a movie and never ate in a […]
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 of its windows. The princess Rita JenretteBoncompagni Ludovisi, a former actress, Playboy model, ex-wife of a U.S. congressman and New York real estate broker, who […]
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 comprehensive. The process is about a lot more than simply deciding who gets to inherit what. Proper estate planning should take health needs into account. […]
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 her parents (and some to her siblings) but left $2,500 to be set aside “so my friends can get blasted after I’m gone.” Her intention […]
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 or trust and was survived by his wife (of a couple of months) and parents. The wife and parents reached an amicable agreement that mirrored […]
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 have children and was married and divorced thrice (including to baseball Hall of Famer, Joe DiMaggio and legendary playwright, Arthur Miller). At Lee Strasber’s passing […]
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 was renowned in various aspects (Colonel in the Revolutionary War, General in the United States Army, Secretary of the Treasury, founder of The New York […]
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 two daughters from his first marriage, Pearl and Amanda. Pearl, his stepdaughter, was adopted by Meat Loaf when she was a young child. The actor/singer’s […]
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 her estate. The last will went on to give Larry “full authority and discretion” to do what he sees fit with properties within the estate, […]
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 be left to my alma mater, the University of Texas (Hook ‘em Horns!). However, the University only received ONE of the Warhol paintings as part […]
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