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  1. 2024Shannen Doherty signed her divorce settlement the day before she died of cancerCBS News and 2 more
  2. 2023Rupert Murdoch tried to rewrite his family trust so Lachlan would control his companies, and a Nevada commissioner found they acted in bad faithwashoecourts.com and 8 more
  3. 2019Doris Day's husband died in 1968 and she learned her lawyer and her husband had lost her earnings; a court awarded the couple $26,396,511FindLaw Caselaw and 3 more
  4. 2017Jerry Lewis's will excluded all six sons from his first marriage and their childrenavclub.com and 1 more
  5. 2014Mickey Rooney worked 90 years and left an $18,000 estate to one stepsonCNN and 2 more
  6. 2013Tom Clancy signed a codicil 68 days before he died, and the top court of Maryland ruled 4 to 3 that it freed his widow's family trust from estate taxmdcourts.gov and 3 more
  7. 2012Harold Hamm's ex-wife refused his $974.8 million check, then cashed it and lost her appeal for moreNBC News and 2 more
  8. 2011Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry sold for $137,235,575 at Christie's in December 2011, the most ever paid for a jewelry collection, with the proceeds going to her foundationguinnessworldrecords.com and 2 more
  9. 2007Brooke Astor's son was convicted of looting her estate while she had Alzheimer'sNBC News and 2 more
  10. 2004Ray Charles gave each of his 12 children $500,000 and left the rest to a foundation; seven of them moved to take back his songsleagle.com and 3 more
  11. 2003Strom Thurmond's family confirmed his Black daughter six months after his death, and South Carolina added her name to his monumentThe New York Times and 4 more
  12. 1998Frank Sinatra's will disinherited any family member who challenged it, listing 13 forbidden legal actionsDeseret News and 2 more
  13. 1998Sonny Bono's widow used a 2016 copyright termination notice to stop paying Cher her half of his song royalties, and a federal judge ruled for CherCourtListener and 15 more
  14. 1997Craig McCaw's ex-wife took about $460 million, mostly in Nextel stock, and bought a California newspaper with itThe Seattle Times and 2 more
  15. 1994Martha Raye married a man 33 years younger and left him her $2 million estate, after her daughter sued for conservatorshipamericanhistory.si.edu and 3 more
  16. 1990Malcolm Forbes spent 25 years buying the tsars' Fabergé eggs, his family sold all nine to a Russian billionaire before the auction, and the US sanctioned the buyer in 2018home.treasury.gov and 5 more
  17. 1989August Busch III ousted his father from Anheuser-Busch in a boardroom coup, and 33 years later the family lost the companyGoogle Books and 3 more
  18. 1987Fred Astaire's widow charged fees for clips of him, lost a federal appeal over 90 seconds of film, and licensed him to a vacuum maker over his daughter's objectionlaw.resource.org and 4 more
  19. 1980H.L. Hunt's sons bought a third of the world's silver, lost more than $1 billion, and filed for bankruptcy after a Peruvian state company won in courtDeseret News and 2 more
  20. 1979Conrad Hilton left his hotel shares to his foundation, and his son Barron spent 10 years in court winning them backLos Angeles Times and 3 more
  21. 1979John Wayne's heirs ended an 11-year trademark fight with Duke University after agreeing that no letter of DUKE on their liquor will be bluettabvue.uspto.gov and 14 more
  22. 1976Gordon Getty, sole trustee of the family trust, sold Getty Oil to Texaco, and his nieces petitioned to remove himFindLaw Caselaw and 3 more
  23. 1974Oilman H.L. Hunt had three families with 15 children, and the wife from his bigamous marriage sued his heirs four years after his deathUPI and 3 more
  24. 1967Bill Koch sold his stake for $1.1 billion, sued his brothers for more, lost, and settled after 20 yearscase-law.vlex.com and 2 more
  25. 1960Loretta Young hid her daughter by Clark Gable in orphanages, then "adopted" her, and admitted the truth only in a book published after her deathThe New York Times and 2 more
  26. 1960A yardman burned Zora Neale Hurston's belongings after she died in a county welfare home in 1960, and a deputy sheriff put out the firearchive.news.ufl.edu and 3 more
  27. 1958Jack Warner took control of Warner Bros. in 1956 after his brothers sold out; Harry died two years laterInternet Archive and 1 more
  28. 1957Laura Ingalls Wilder left her book royalties to a Missouri library after her daughter's death; the daughter's heir renewed the copyrights, and a 2001 settlement paid the library $875,000The Seattle Times and 2 more
  29. 1953Hank Williams' daughter was born five days after his death, made a ward of the state, and won half his estate 34 years laterpeople.com and 2 more
  30. 1938Comstock heir Clarence Mackay cut his daughter out of his will for marrying Irving Berlin, and after her baby died he took her backnnbw.com and 2 more
  31. 1923Nan Britton lost her libel suit over Warren Harding's daughter in 1931, and DNA proved the daughter was his in 2015The New York Times and 4 more
  32. 1907Cassie Chadwick said she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter, borrowed against forged Carnegie notes, and broke an Ohio bankcase.edu and 3 more
  33. 1906John D. Rockefeller's father lived 50 years as "Dr. Levingston" with a second wife and was buried under the false nameLibrary of Congress and 4 more
  34. 1899Horace Tabor left his wife for Baby Doe, lost his silver fortune in 1893, and Baby Doe was found frozen at his last mineWikipedia (English) and 2 more
  35. 1891Herman Melville's widow tied his unpublished papers in bundles in 1891, and Billy Budd stayed in a breadbox until a biographer opened it in 1919harvardfilmarchive.org and 3 more
  36. 1891P.T. Barnum's will paid a grandson to take the Barnum name; sources give the sum as $25,000 or a share of the estatecollections.ctdigitalarchive.org and 4 more
  37. 1890William Waldorf Astor built a hotel beside his aunt's house over who was "Mrs. Astor", and her son built a taller one on hersmentalfloss.com and 3 more
  38. 1885Grant lost his savings in the Grant & Ward fraud and wrote memoirs that paid his widow about $450,000US National Park Service and 5 more
  39. 1882Robert Lincoln had his mother declared insane the day after detectives saw $56,000 in bonds sewn into her petticoatsencyclopedia.com and 2 more
  40. 1876Thieves stole A. T. Stewart's body from his New York vault, and his widow paid $20,000 for a satchel of bonescambridge.org and 2 more
  41. 1839Stephen Van Rensselaer III's will ordered $400,000 in back rents collected, and his tenants answered with the Anti-Rent WarAmerican Heritage and 4 more