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  1. 2024O.J. Simpson paid little of the $33.5 million judgment while alive, and in 2025 his executor accepted a $58 million claim from Ron Goldman's fatherfindlaw.com and 2 more
  2. 2022Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky's youngest son agreed to sell his manuscripts for $7 million; his brothers said Torah law split the estate among three sons and none of the five daughtershe.wikisource.org and 3 more
  3. 2021Bernie Madoff died in prison, his sons' estates gave up their fortunes, and the trustee recovered $15.5 billionmadofftrustee.com and 3 more
  4. 2021Larry King's handwritten 2019 will left his estate to five children, two of whom died before him, and his estranged wife Shawn contested itwsbtv.com and 3 more
  5. 2021Phil Spector died in prison serving a murder sentence; his daughter sued his ex-wife, alleging she posed as the daughter to sell his memorabiliatheblast.com and 6 more
  6. 2021The widow of Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" co-writer sued for a share of his $300 million song sale and lost twicenycourts.gov and 3 more
  7. 2020Sumner Redstone's ex-girlfriend said he was incompetent, the judge disagreed, and his daughter took control of CBS and Viacomfortune.com and 2 more
  8. 2020Joseph Safra's son sued his mother and brothers over the family bank, alleging his father had been influenced to change his will, and settled in 2024forbes.com.br and 1 more
  9. 2020Kirk Douglas left most of a $61 million estate to charity and nothing to his son MichaelInternet Archive and 3 more
  10. 2019Jeffrey Epstein signed his will two days before he died in jail; victims' claims cut the $577 million estate to about $107 millionedition.cnn.com and 11 more
  11. 2018Stan Lee's last manager was charged with elder abuse after the Marvel creator diednbclosangeles.com and 2 more
  12. 2017Jerry Lewis's will excluded all six sons from his first marriage and their childrenavclub.com and 1 more
  13. 2017Glen Campbell's wills cut out three of his eight children, and they challenged his capacity after Alzheimer'snewschannel5.com and 2 more
  14. 2016A former baker bought a prince's title by adult adoption, sold it on to adopted sons, and became Zsa Zsa Gabor's heirgoodmorningamerica.com and 4 more
  15. 2016Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband ran her estate as conservator and moved most of her ashes to Budapesttmz.com and 3 more
  16. 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
  17. 2016Lou Pearlman built the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC on a $300 million Ponzi scheme, fled to Bali, and died in prison as investors got 6 cents on the dollarInternet Archive and 4 more
  18. 2014Joan Rivers's executors sued the Manhattan clinic where she stopped breathing during a throat procedure and settled in 2016 for an undisclosed sumamp.insurancejournal.com and 6 more
  19. 2013Amanda Bynes lived under her mother's conservatorship for nine yearsCNN and 1 more
  20. 2013Rabbi Ovadia Yosef left nearly everything to his youngest son; his other children fought over the Jerusalem flat until 2016theyeshivaworld.com and 5 more
  21. 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
  22. 2012Maurice Sendak's foundation and the Rosenbach Museum fought for two years in a Connecticut probate court over his rare-book collectionSmithsonian Magazine and 3 more
  23. 2011Peter Falk's daughter lost a conservatorship fight to his widow and then pushed for a lawLos Angeles Times and 1 more
  24. 2011Amy Winehouse's father sued her friends over $1.2 million from her dresses and lostwtop.com and 2 more
  25. 2011Yuli Ofer's last will gave most of his empire to his daughter; his son said he was no longer clear of mind, and the daughter wonhaaretz.com and 2 more
  26. 2011Lucian Freud left a 96 million pound estate to his solicitor and one daughter, and a High Court judge refused to open the will to a son who was one of at least 14 childrenThe National Archives, Find Case Law and 3 more
  27. 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
  28. 2010Tony Curtis left everything to his wife and named his five living children to exclude theminsideedition.com and 2 more
  29. 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
  30. 2009Steve Cohen's first wife sued him 19 years after their divorce, alleging he hid $5.5 million, and an appeals court revived the caseThe Wall Street Journal and 2 more
  31. 2009Edith Windsor paid $363,053 in estate tax because the United States did not recognise her marriage to Thea Spyer, and the Supreme Court struck the law downCornell Law School, LII and 2 more
  32. 2009Allen Klein managed three Beatles, sued them for $19 million after they fired him, and took $5 million to settlelaw.resource.org and 4 more
  33. 2008Paul Newman left his food company to a foundation run by his adviser, his daughter said the family was pushed out, and Congress changed the law for itCornell Law School, LII and 2 more
  34. 2007Ike Turner wrote two handwritten wills and revoked one; a judge found he died with no valid willsandiegouniontribune.com and 1 more
  35. 2007Leona Helmsley left $12 million in trust for her dog Trouble and nothing to 2 grandchildren, and a judge cut the dog's trust to $2 millionNBC News and 14 more
  36. 2006The Satmar Rebbe's will named his younger son successor; New York's highest court refused to decide which son controls the congregationCornell Law School, LII and 4 more
  37. 2006Muriel Spark left her entire estate to her companion Penelope Jardine and took steps to leave her only son nothingmanuscripts.nls.uk and 3 more
  38. 2005Arthur Miller kept his son Daniel with Down syndrome out of public view and left him an equal share of the estate six weeks before he diedNPR and 3 more
  39. 2001Daniel Wildenstein's widow said his sons hid the art fortune in trusts, and France prosecuted the heir for tax fraudArtnet News and 2 more
  40. 2000Hedy Lamarr's adopted son sued in Florida in 2000 over a will that left him nothing from her $3.3 million estateUPI and 3 more
  41. 1999Banker Edmond Safra died in a fire his nurse set in Monaco while his bank was being sold to HSBCCBS News and 8 more
  42. 1994Jack Kirby's heirs served 45 copyright termination notices on Marvel; the Second Circuit ruled his work was for hire in 2013 and the case settled in 2014leagle.com and 3 more
  43. 1991Publisher Robert Maxwell went overboard from his yacht, and his sons inherited companies that had used the staff pension fundsThe New York Times and 4 more
  44. 1991Jerzy Kosiński was accused of plagiarism and ghostwriting in 1982 and killed himself in 1991 with a plastic bag over his headEncyclopaedia Britannica and 3 more
  45. 1990Armand Hammer built his museum with Occidental Petroleum money and died with shareholders, his son and USC in courtLos Angeles Times and 2 more
  46. 1990Sammy Davis Jr. died owing the IRS about $7 million, and his widow lost the rights to his name and musicDeseret News and 6 more
  47. 1985Chagall's heirs paid his death duties with 46 paintings and 406 drawings, and his granddaughters' committee seized a £100,000 fake to destroy itcentrepompidou.fr and 5 more
  48. 1984Jackie Wilson spent eight years in a coma under a court-appointed guardian, died $300,000 in debt, and was buried in an unmarked gravealbanyherald.com and 4 more
  49. 1983Arthur Koestler and his wife Cynthia died together in 1983; his 1 million pound estate paid for a parapsychology chair after four universities declined itpsi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk and 3 more
  50. 1982Ayn Rand's heir kept the first and last pages of The Fountainhead manuscript; the Library of Congress took them from his home in January 2002peikoff.com and 2 more
  51. 1980Peter Sellers signed a trust for his daughter the day he collapsed; his widow kept a £4 million estateBBC and 1 more
  52. 1979Peggy Guggenheim's grandsons sued the Guggenheim Foundation in Paris to undo her gift of the Venice collection and losthyperallergic.com and 6 more
  53. 1979The IRS valued Samuel Newhouse's newspaper shares at $1.32 billion and sought a $305 million fraud penalty, and the Tax Court sided with his sonscase-law.vlex.com and 2 more
  54. 1977Groucho Marx's companion lost the fight over his estate, and his heirs lost the rights to his actCaselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School and 2 more
  55. 1974Louis Kahn died unidentified in a Penn Station restroom, owing hundreds of thousands of dollars, with three families at his funeraldesignmuseum.org and 3 more
  56. 1973Jim Croce's widow sued his producers and their lawyer over the contracts he signed in 1968, and won only against the lawyerquimbee.com and 2 more
  57. 1970Mark Rothko's executors sold 798 of his paintings to a gallery one of them worked for, and his 19-year-old daughter suedrothko.nga.gov and 3 more
  58. 1970Barnett Newman's "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III" was slashed in Amsterdam in 1986; a $400,000 restoration was judged to have destroyed itdutchnews.nl and 3 more
  59. 1967Brian Epstein died at 32 owed 25 percent of the Beatles' royalties for nine years, and his mother sold that claim to a City investment trustthe-paulmccartney-project.com and 3 more
  60. 1966Lenny Bruce died broke in 1966 with an appeal pending, and New York pardoned him in 2003Internet Archive and 4 more
  61. 1964The KGB seized Vasily Grossman's novel and every draft in 1961, and the FSB gave the papers to a state archive in 2013, not to his heirsdaily.jstor.org and 2 more
  62. 1962Marilyn Monroe's executor told tax officials she lived in New York, so a court barred her estate's company from claiming California image rightsCourtListener and 8 more
  63. 1958Baron Ferenc Hatvany came out of hiding in 1945 to find his Budapest bank vaults emptied, and a British panel recommended a looted Constable be returned to his heirsassets.publishing.service.gov.uk and 4 more
  64. 1958Jack Warner took control of Warner Bros. in 1956 after his brothers sold out; Harry died two years laterInternet Archive and 1 more
  65. 1955Einstein gave his Nobel money to his first wife and asked to be cremated in secret, and the pathologist kept his brain for decadesnationalgeographic.com and 3 more
  66. 1955Albert Einstein's publicity rights ended in 2005, a judge ruled, defeating Hebrew University's suit over a GM ad with his face on a muscled bodycacd.uscourts.gov and 5 more
  67. 1954Edwin Armstrong jumped from his apartment after years of suing RCA over FM radio, and his widow, once Sarnoff's secretary, won the caseslemelson.mit.edu and 3 more
  68. 1946The Nazis forced Max Warburg to give up M.M. Warburg & Co in 1938; his son Eric needed until 1970 to restore the family nameInternet Archive and 6 more
  69. 1945The Anne Frank Fonds named Otto Frank a co-author of the diary to extend its copyright past 2016jta.org and 3 more
  70. 1944Banker Fritz Gutmann was killed at Theresienstadt, and his heirs sued an American collector to get back his DegasDutch Restitutions Committee and 6 more
  71. 1942Bruno Schulz was shot in the street in Drohobych in November 1942 in a feud between two SS men; in 2001 Yad Vashem cut his murals from a pantry wall and flew them to Israelnewrepublic.com and 3 more
  72. 1940Jacques Goudstikker died fleeing the Nazis, Göring took his paintings, and the Netherlands returned 202 of them in 2006cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov and 2 more
  73. 1939Banker Fritz Mannheimer died ten weeks after his wedding, his bank failed, and Hitler bought his collection from the creditorsresources.huygens.knaw.nl and 2 more
  74. 1937George Gershwin died at 38 without a will, and the Gershwin trusts lobbied Congress for 20 more years of copyrightLibrary of Congress and 5 more
  75. 1935Max Liebermann's widow Martha killed herself in March 1943 as police came to deport her, and in 2025 a Dutch committee advised returning a Liebermann drawing from the Rijksmuseum to her heirsDutch Restitutions Committee and 3 more
  76. 1932Paul Bern was found shot two months after marrying Jean Harlow, his common-law wife Dorothy Millette drowned days later, and a judge made Harlow executor of his estateebsco.com and 5 more
  77. 1926Houdini's great-nephew and two authors announced a 2007 plan to exhume his body to test for poisonwildabouthoudini.com and 2 more
  78. 1925Adele Bloch-Bauer's will asked for her Klimt portraits to go to Austria; the Nazis took them, and her niece won them back in 2006plone.unige.ch and 4 more
  79. 1924Kafka told Max Brod to burn his papers; Brod saved them, and the fight over them ended in a Swiss bank vault in 2019historynewsnetwork.org and 3 more
  80. 1920Modigliani died poor, his partner jumped from a window the next day, and Italian police later closed a Modigliani show for fakesitsartlaw.org and 4 more
  81. 1911Alma Mahler held Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony for decades and first demanded a veto over Deryck Cooke's completionmahlerfoundation.org and 2 more
  82. 1904Herzl's testament asked for his children to lie beside him; Israel buried his suicide son and his daughter there 76 years after their deathshnn.us and 2 more
  83. 1896Baron Maurice de Hirsch left his fortune to his widow, who gave it away and passed the rest to an adopted sonjewishencyclopedia.com and 4 more
  84. 1892Walt Whitman's brain was removed at his autopsy for a brain club and was destroyed within a yearpubs.lib.uiowa.edu and 2 more
  85. 1864David Sassoon's sons split his firm in two, his daughter-in-law Flora was pushed out, and his great-grandson Victor lost Shanghaismu.edu and 3 more
  86. 1862Uriah Levy willed Monticello to the United States, the Confederacy auctioned it, and New York's highest court voided the giftCaselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School and 7 more
  87. 1812Mayer Amschel Rothschild's 1812 will shut his daughters and sons-in-law out of the bank; the Frankfurt house closed in 1901 for lack of a male heirrothschildarchive.org and 5 more
  88. 1738Württemberg hanged Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in a cage in 1738 and auctioned his property months before the verdictdeutschlandmuseum.de and 5 more
  89. 1703The Habsburg state owed Samuel Oppenheimer millions when he died in 1703; it declared his firm bankrupt and his estate was auctioned in 1763deutsche-biographie.de and 4 more
  90. 1569Gracia Nasi's sister Brianda sued her in Venice for half the Mendes fortune and denounced her as a secret Jewjstor.org and 5 more
  91. 1506Columbus's 1502 will disappeared while his descendants fought over the Veragua estate from 1578 to a final ruling in 1793revistas.ucm.es and 4 more
  92. 1506Columbus's heirs sued the Spanish Crown for 28 years over his promised tenth and viceroyalty, and settled for a dukedom and 10,000 ducats a yearEncyclopaedia Britannica and 4 more
  93. 1506Spain and the Dominican Republic both claim Columbus's body; a 2006 DNA test matched the Seville bones, and Santo Domingo refused testinghistorynewsnetwork.org and 4 more
  94. 1186When Aaron of Lincoln died in 1186, Henry II took his whole estate and set up a separate exchequer to collect his debtsJournal article (DOI) and 4 more
  95. 1100Wuhsha the broker was thrown out of synagogue on Yom Kippur for her son by a lover, and her will gave the lover "not one penny"geniza.princeton.edu and 2 more
  96. 132Babatha hid her lawsuits over her son's guardianship and her dead husband's orchards in a cave during the Bar Kokhba revoltcambridge.org and 4 more
  97. 30The Gospel of John says soldiers diced for the executed Jesus's seamless robe, and three churches claim to have itbiblegateway.com and 2 more
  98. 4 BCEHerod the Great executed three sons, changed his will in his last days, and died five days after the last execution; Augustus split his kingdom among the survivorsperseus.tufts.edu and 6 more