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  1. 2025A mob demolished the house where Sheikh Hasina's father was killed, and a tribunal sentenced her to death in absentia and ordered her assets confiscatednewsonair.gov.in and 2 more
  2. 2025Najib Razak's stepson made The Wolf of Wall Street with money from Malaysia's state fund, and Najib was given 15 more years in prisonjamaica-gleaner.com and 3 more
  3. 2023After Mohamed Al Fayed died, more than 180 women came forward, and Harrods went to court over his estateleighday.co.uk and 3 more
  4. 2021Argentine president Carlos Menem's son from his prison-era affair was recognised by a court only in 2006, after his mother's deathpagina12.com.ar and 2 more
  5. 2021Majid Al Futtaim died with ten heirs and a $16 billion mall group, and a court set up by Dubai's ruler gave government appointees five of nine board seatsgulfnews.com and 4 more
  6. 2020Switzerland froze 700 million francs tied to Mubarak's circle in 2011, and after 11 years released the last 400 million to its ownerspubliceye.ch and 3 more
  7. 2020MF DOOM's widow sued a former label manager for 31 notebooks of lyrics and got them back in 2025musictech.com and 3 more
  8. 2019Kelantan's council made the sultan's son sultan while the father lay ill, and the father asked the Federal Court to give his throne backInternet Archive and 5 more
  9. 2017Arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi's ex-wife won a divorce payment reported near $874 million, then the largest on recordfindlaw.com and 2 more
  10. 2016Muhammad Ali's company sued Fox for more than $30 million over a 3-minute Super Bowl LI promotional video using his image, and Fox settledrightofpublicityroadmap.com and 5 more
  11. 2016Zaha Hadid's business partner sued her three co-executors in London over a roughly £70 million estate and lost a key ruling in November 2020The National Archives, Find Case Law and 3 more
  12. 2009Omar Bongo left about 300 billion CFA francs and 54 children; one daughter took his heir's birth certificate to a French court, and France charged at least nine of the childrenafrik.com and 5 more
  13. 2008Indonesia's Supreme Court ordered General Suharto's Supersemar foundation to pay about 4.4 trillion rupiahnews.detik.com and 4 more
  14. 2006Saddam Hussein was buried in his own mausoleum, the mausoleum was destroyed, and no one will say where his body iskuwaittimes.com and 3 more
  15. 2005Rafik Hariri was killed in 2005; his family chose the second son as political heir, the other brothers sold him their shares of Saudi Oger, and the company closed in 2017news.un.org and 4 more
  16. 2004A Qatari prince's letter said Nawaz Sharif's father had willed his Gulf profits to a grandson, and courts fought for six years over four Park Lane flatsoffshoreleaks.icij.org and 4 more
  17. 1999King Hussein of Jordan removed his brother as heir after 34 years, two weeks before he diedWikipedia (English) and 1 more
  18. 1993Rudolf Nureyev left most of his estate to two foundations; a sister and niece contested the will, and a federal judge ruled for the foundation in 1998Deseret News and 3 more
  19. 1975Saudi King Faisal was shot by his nephew during an audience, and the nephew was beheaded in a Riyadh squareWikipedia (English) and 1 more
  20. 1975Umm Kulthum's heirs sued to pull the biopic "El Sett" from cinemas, and Egypt's Administrative Court ordered them to pay costsInternet Archive and 3 more
  21. 1971Idi Amin seized the Madhvani sugar estate in 1972; the widow came back to one working tractor, and the heirs split again in 2020csmonitor.com and 2 more
  22. 1965King Farouk left Egypt on his yacht, and one of his gold coins later sold for $18.9 millionWikipedia (English) and 1 more
  23. 1960Bhopal's heiress left for Pakistan, her sister's line took the palaces, and in 2025 a court reopened Saif Ali Khan's inheritanceLiveLaw and 4 more
  24. 1948Jinnah left his Bombay house to his sister; India took it as evacuee property, and his daughter died with her claim still pendingthequint.com and 3 more
  25. 1944Revolutionaries demolished Reza Shah's mausoleum in 1980 and could not find his body, and a mummified body turned up on the site in 2018Encyclopaedia Britannica and 3 more
  26. 1915Talaat asked the US ambassador for the list of Armenians insured by American companies, and 89 years later New York Life paid $20 million to their heirsProject Gutenberg and 3 more
  27. 1855Prince Diponegoro was arrested at peace talks in 1830, and the kris the Dutch returned in 2020 had been missing for decadesthejakartapost.com and 3 more
  28. 1851Begum Samru's heir was declared insane on his wife's petition, and after his death she contested his will leaving £200,000 to an Indian collegeUK Parliament, Hansard and 3 more
  29. 1822The Ottoman state killed Ali Pasha of Ioannina in 1822 and confiscated more than 950 farmsislamansiklopedisi.org.tr and 2 more
  30. 1799The British army broke up Tipu Sultan's gold throne to divide as prize money; his sword sold for £14 million in 2023 while descendants pulled rickshawsnam.ac.uk and 6 more
  31. 1747Nader Shah's Indian jewels cost his blind grandson his life under torture, and a deposed shah took them into the Russian legationiranicaonline.org and 2 more
  32. 1707Aurangzeb was buried under a plain stone as he willed, and his sons fought for the throne; one said "a throne or a bier"Internet Archive and 1 more
  33. 1627Asaf Khan crowned a Mughal prince to hold the throne for Shah Jahan, and Shah Jahan had him imprisoned and killedInternet Archive and 1 more
  34. 1595Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III had his 19 brothers strangled on the day he took the throneWikipedia (English) and 1 more
  35. 1481A Turkish court ruled in 2020 that Mehmed II's endowment deed still bound Hagia Sophia as a mosque, while an Armenian foundation could not recover its confiscated Istanbul innharvardlawreview.org and 2 more
  36. 1449Ulugh Beg kept back his son's share of the treasury, and the son defeated him, had him sentenced, and let the emirs kill him on the road to Meccaislamansiklopedisi.org.tr and 2 more
  37. 1405Soviet scientists opened Timur's tomb on 19 June 1941 over the objections of Samarkand's clerics, and the keeper who read out its warning was ordered arrestedEncyclopaedia Britannica and 2 more
  38. 1405Timur's will named a grandson in Kandahar, but another grandson took Samarkand and the treasury firstEncyclopaedia Britannica and 2 more
  39. 1324Mansa Musa said he took Mali's throne because his predecessor sailed into the Atlantic and never came backcambridge.org and 6 more
  40. 1316Malik Kafur read out a will that made a six-year-old sultan of Delhi, blinded the heirs, and was beheaded 35 days laterInternet Archive and 1 more
  41. 1290Sultan Qalawun built Cairo's great hospital with forced labour after a vow in a Damascus hospital funded by a captured European king's ransomegymonuments.gov.eg and 3 more
  42. 1249Shajar al-Durr hid the death of Sultan al-Salih Ayyub in 1249, became sultan after his heir was killed, and was beaten to death in 1257engelsbergideas.com and 3 more
  43. 1236Sultan Iltutmish named his daughter Razia heir over his sons; the nobles crowned a son, and the people of Delhi put her on the throneInternet Archive and 1 more
  44. 1224The Sundiata epic says the king wanted his crippled son to rule, the council crowned his half-brother, and the exiled son came back to found Malibu.edu and 2 more
  45. 1193Saladin left a gold ingot and 47 silver dirhams, not enough for his grave, and his brother took the empire from his sonsEncyclopaedia Britannica and 5 more
  46. 1124Hasan-i Sabbah had both his sons executed and left Alamut to a lieutenant from another castleiis.ac.uk and 2 more
  47. 1030Mahmud of Ghazni left his throne to one son; the other blinded him, and the blind brother's son later killed the victorInternet Archive and 2 more
  48. 1030Britain carried gates from Mahmud of Ghazni's tomb to India in 1842 as the stolen gates of Somnath; they were Afghan cedar and are still in Agra Fortcollections.vam.ac.uk and 2 more
  49. 803Harun al-Rashid had his vizier Ja'far killed in one night in 803, hung his body in Baghdad, and took the Barmakid fortuneWikisource (primary text) and 4 more
  50. 632Fatima asked Abu Bakr for her inheritance from Muhammad; he refused, she did not speak to him again, and caliphs returned and seized the land of Fadak for 200 yearsInternet Archive and 2 more