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Cases about people recorded as buddhist. A religion appears where Wikidata or the person's Wikipedia biography records one, for the person the case is about. Each case shows its source. A case with no record shows none.

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  1. 2021South Korea could not collect 86.7 billion won of Chun Doo-hwan's forfeiture after he diedThe Korea Herald and 8 more
  2. 2020Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee's heirs paid 12 trillion won in inheritance tax, the largest in Korean historykhan.co.kr and 3 more
  3. 2016Leonard Cohen's manager emptied his retirement fund, and after his death his children found a forged page in his trustthecanadianencyclopedia.ca and 5 more
  4. 2015Lee Kuan Yew's will asked that his house be demolished, and Singapore made it a national monument over his son's objectionmccy.gov.sg and 3 more
  5. 2011Steve Jobs swore he was sterile to avoid paying for his daughter, lost on a blood test, and later left her millionsfortune.com and 2 more
  6. 2010J.D. Salinger blocked an unauthorised Catcher in the Rye sequel, and his estate settled to keep it out of North America until the copyright endspublishersweekly.com and 2 more
  7. 2003Anita Mui put her estate in a trust to keep it from her mother; the mother sued for 20 years, went bankrupt, and died in 2026 after Mui's ashes went missingtaipeitimes.com and 5 more
  8. 1994A court removed 17-year-old Frances Bean Cobain from Courtney Love's care, and she took control of her father's imageusatoday30.usatoday.com and 2 more
  9. 1989The Dalai Lama named a six-year-old as Panchen Lama in 1995; the boy disappeared within days and China installed another boy chosen from a golden urntashilhunpo.org and 4 more
  10. 1988Chiang Ching-kuo never acknowledged his twin sons, and one of them took the Chiang name 63 years latercna.com.tw and 5 more
  11. 1969A Florida judge ruled that the will giving Jack Kerouac's estate to his widow's family was forged, and the ruling changed nothingnbcmiami.com and 3 more
  12. 1948US Army papers show Hideki Tojo's ashes were scattered over the Pacific in 1948wjla.com and 4 more
  13. 1930Sakichi Toyoda sold his loom patents to a British firm, the money started Toyota, and the loom company went to an adopted son-in-lawtoyota-global.com and 3 more
  14. 1925Siam's 1924 succession law barred princesses, so King Vajiravudh's only child, born as he lay dying, could not inherit his throneInternet Archive and 5 more
  15. 1782General Chakri took Taksin's throne in 1782 while Taksin's son and heir was away at war, and dug up Taksin's body two years latervajirayana.org and 5 more
  16. 1598Hideyoshi took over Nobunaga's house by backing a two-year-old heir, and after he died Tokugawa Ieyasu did the same to his own five-year-old sonkotobank.jp and 5 more
  17. 1560Burma's king offered a fortune for the Buddha's tooth, Goa's archbishop ground it to powder, and two new teeth appeared within six yearsmanushi.in and 2 more
  18. 1443Zeami lost his son and the leadership of his Noh troupe to the shogun's favourite, and was exiled to Sado at about 72the-noh.com and 2 more
  19. 1398The Yongle Emperor took his nephew's throne in 1402, and the deposed emperor's two-year-old son was held for 55 yearszh.wikisource.org and 3 more
  20. 705Wu Zetian deposed one son, had another forced to kill himself, made herself emperor, and was buried as an empress in her husband's sealed tombzh.wikisource.org and 5 more
  21. 480 BCEThe Pali canon says eight peoples demanded the Buddha's ashes; one share, found in 1898, was pulled from auction in 2025accesstoinsight.org and 2 more