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Cases about people recorded as eastern orthodox. 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. 2024Navalny died in an Arctic prison colony, and the state held his body for eight days while investigators pressed his mother to agree to a secret burialglobalnews.ca and 1 more
  2. 2017Romania's King Michael was forced to sign a pre-typed abdication, and his grandson was later struck from the successionWikipedia (English) and 1 more
  3. 2017Chris Cornell's widow sued Soundgarden over his last seven recordings and called their $278,000 buyout offer "villainously low"loudwire.com and 4 more
  4. 2016George Michael left his £97 million estate to his sisters and nothing to his partner, who would not leave the Regent's Park housesmoothradio.com and 4 more
  5. 2013Boris Berezovsky lost his case against Abramovich, died seven months later, and a judge called his estate hopelessly insolventThe National Archives, Find Case Law and 6 more
  6. 2009Fairuz's nephews blocked her from staging her late husband's musical without their approval, and a Beirut court stopped her performing his brother's worknews.wjct.org and 3 more
  7. 1981Bob Marley died without a will, and his widow forged his signature to move his companies into her nameFindLaw Caselaw and 3 more
  8. 1981Natalie Wood drowned off Santa Catalina Island in 1981, and in 2012 the Los Angeles coroner changed her death certificate to "drowning and other undetermined factors"The Hollywood Reporter and 4 more
  9. 1971Stravinsky's widow and children litigated his estate for four years, and the dispute over the royalties reached a New York appeals court in 2003nycourts.gov and 3 more
  10. 1955Calouste Gulbenkian left his oil fortune to a Lisbon foundation and his son Nubar about $2.5 millionTime and 6 more
  11. 1943The US government sealed Nikola Tesla's papers after he died, his nephew took them to Belgrade, and the church and scientists later fought over his ashesCornell Law School, LII and 4 more
  12. 1943Russia's culture minister demanded Rachmaninoff's remains back from New York, and his descendants said noSmithsonian Magazine and 3 more
  13. 1924Lenin's widow opposed embalming him and gave the party his letter asking it to remove Stalin; the party put the body on display and kept the letter from the congress floormarxists.org and 5 more
  14. 1913Menelik II's death was kept secret in 1913, and his named heir Lij Iyasu was deposed in 1916 and died a prisonerWikisource (primary text) and 7 more
  15. 1910Tolstoy signed a secret will in the woods to give his copyrights to the publicProject Gutenberg and 4 more
  16. 1868Tewodros II shot himself at Maqdala in 1868, Britain auctioned his treasury and took his son, and in 2023 Buckingham Palace refused to return the son's remainsarchive.archaeology.org and 8 more
  17. 1852Gogol burned the second part of Dead Souls nine days before he died; in 1931 his coffin was opened, and legend says the skull was missingweekend.rambler.ru and 3 more
  18. 1796Catherine the Great tried to pass over her son Paul for the throne, and Paul made a law that no ruler could choose an heir againru.wikisource.org and 2 more
  19. 1774Ivan VI's brothers and sisters were born in prison, held at Kholmogory for 36 years, and sent to Denmark in 1780 on a Russian pensionru.wikisource.org and 4 more
  20. 1718Peter the Great had his son tortured to death, changed the law so he could pick any heir, and died without naming oneWikipedia (English) and 1 more
  21. 1581Ivan the Terrible struck his heir on the head in November 1581, and his dynasty ended with his surviving son in 1598ru.wikisource.org and 3 more
  22. 1509Ivan III crowned his grandson Dmitry as heir in 1498, then made his son Vasily heir and kept the grandson under guard until he died in 1509azbyka.ru and 2 more
  23. 1025Basil II left 200,000 pounds of gold and no son; his successors spent it, and the gold coin was debased to almost nothing by the 1080ssourcebooks.fordham.edu and 4 more