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  1. 2025Sly Stone was living in a van when a jury awarded him $5 million in stolen royalties, and the award against his manager was reversedthegrio.com and 2 more
  2. 2023Michael Oher of "The Blind Side" learned he was never adopted, and a judge ended the Tuohy conservatorshiptoday.com and 2 more
  3. 2022Wendy Williams has been under a guardianship since 2022 and is still asking a New York court to end itatlantablackstar.com and 3 more
  4. 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
  5. 2020Little Richard's brother emailed the buyer about elder abuse and racism, the buyer withdrew its offer for the estate's rights, and the court took away his sharetncourts.gov and 2 more
  6. 2020Chadwick Boseman died in 2020 without a will, and his widow filed in Los Angeles to run an estate first listed at $938,500today.com and 3 more
  7. 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
  8. 2018Ingvar Kamprad put IKEA into a Dutch foundation in 1982 that The Economist called the world's richest charity and one of its least generousThe Economist and 3 more
  9. 2018Aretha Franklin's 2014 will was found in a notebook under her couch cushions, a jury upheld it in 2023, and her estate was still open in 2026wdet.org and 8 more
  10. 2016Debbie Reynolds never raised the money for her Hollywood museum, sold her 3,500-item collection in 2011, and her estate auctioned more after she died a day after Carrie Fishernbclosangeles.com and 4 more
  11. 2015B.B. King's daughters accused his manager and his assistant of poisoning him; the coroner found no poison and the manager kept control of the estateCBS News and 4 more
  12. 2013Paul Walker left $25 million to his 15-year-old daughter, who then sued Porschenydailynews.com and 3 more
  13. 2013Amanda Bynes lived under her mother's conservatorship for nine yearsCNN and 1 more
  14. 2012Whitney Houston left everything to her daughter; three years later the daughter died and the money went to Whitney's mother and brothersabcnews.com and 3 more
  15. 2012Thomas Kinkade's girlfriend produced handwritten notes leaving her his mansion and $10 million, and his estranged wife said he was drunk when he wrote themCBS News and 3 more
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 2009Brittany Murphy's father sued the coroner for her hair samples, then said a lab found heavy metals; her mother called it a smearCBS News and 5 more
  19. 2008Bo Diddley's will gave his managers 30 percent of his songs forever, a judge let them sell the catalog to pay the IRS, and 22 heirs objectedfloridaprobatelawgroup.com and 2 more
  20. 2007Anna Nicole Smith's body went to her 5-month-old daughter's guardian after a Florida judge wept through the ruling, and DNA named the girl's fathercdn.ca9.uscourts.gov and 7 more
  21. 2007Evel Knievel's family company sued Disney over Toy Story 4's Duke Caboom, and two federal courts held the toy daredevil transformed his likenessworldipreview.com and 7 more
  22. 2004Prince Bernhard denied a secret daughter to the Lockheed inquiry, then left her and a second one a sixth of his estate eachnos.nl and 4 more
  23. 2003John Ritter's family collected $14 million in settlements, then lost a $67 million suit against two doctorstoday.com and 1 more
  24. 2003Johnny Cash's trust sued Coca-Cola for using a tribute singer who sounds like himfox10phoenix.com and 2 more
  25. 2002The Queen Mother left her estate to her daughter free of inheritance tax under a 1993 deal between the palace and the TreasuryGOV.UK and 2 more
  26. 2001Zhang Xueliang inherited his murdered father's Manchurian army in 1928 and spent more than 50 years in detentionlibrary.columbia.edu and 4 more
  27. 2001George Harrison's estate sued his cancer doctor for making him sign a guitar two weeks before he diedfoxnews.com and 4 more
  28. 1997Louis Napoléon's 1997 will passed over his son Charles and named his 11-year-old grandson head of the Bonaparte houseThe Independent and 4 more
  29. 1997Princess Diana's executors changed her will after her death and gave each godchild one item instead of a quarter of her possessionsWikipedia (English) and 1 more
  30. 1996Tupac Shakur's estate forced Drake to delete a song that used an AI copy of Tupac's voiceNBC News and 2 more
  31. 1996Tupac's mother beat his absent father in court and built his estate; her executor was then sued by Tupac's sisterLos Angeles Times and 4 more
  32. 1991The IRS seized Redd Foxx's Las Vegas home, seven vehicles and bank accounts in 1989, and his estate was still in probate with an IRS lien in 2006probatelawyerblog.com and 4 more
  33. 1989The Vunivalu of Bau title stood empty for 34 years after 1989 because Cakobau's clan could not agree on an heirfijivillage.com and 2 more
  34. 1987Andy Warhol's foundation valued his art at $95 million; a court said $390.9 million, and his estate lawyer was paid on the differenceThe Art Newspaper and 3 more
  35. 1987Liberace's doctor signed a death certificate that hid AIDS; the coroner pulled his embalmed body back for an autopsyLos Angeles Times and 5 more
  36. 1985Orson Welles's daughter Beatrice sued his partner Oja Kodar, fought her over The Other Side of the Wind, and lost her claim to the Citizen Kane copyrightFindLaw Caselaw and 5 more
  37. 1981Bob Marley died without a will, and his widow forged his signature to move his companies into her nameFindLaw Caselaw and 3 more
  38. 1977Joan Crawford's will left out Christina and Christopher "for reasons which are well known to them"Internet Archive and 6 more
  39. 1975Josephine Baker barricaded herself in the kitchen of her château when it was sold for her debts, and was carried out to the stepsculture.gouv.fr and 3 more
  40. 1973Marjorie Merriweather Post deeded Mar-a-Lago to the nation, and Congress handed it back in a Lake Tahoe land billgovinfo.gov and 6 more
  41. 1968Martin Luther King Jr.'s estate sued his daughter in 2014 to take his Nobel medal and Bible for sale, and a judge locked both in a bank boxlaw.resource.org and 12 more
  42. 1967A cousin with only a life estate sold John Coltrane's Philadelphia house for $100,000, and his sons sued to take it backinquirer.com and 2 more
  43. 1960Mary Roy's brother told her to leave their father's cottage, she sued, and the Supreme Court gave Kerala's Syrian Christian daughters equal shares back to 1951LiveLaw and 3 more
  44. 1954Hitler paid his field marshals 4,000 Reichsmarks a month and gave Guderian a confiscated Polish estatejournals.uchicago.edu and 3 more
  45. 1950George Bernard Shaw's will ordered a new 40-letter alphabet; the High Court found the trust not charitable in 1957, and the National Gallery of Ireland received a third of his royalties until 2020oxbridgenotes.co.uk and 3 more
  46. 1945Hitler willed his property to the Nazi Party, a Munich court gave it to Bavaria, and Bavaria used his copyright to block Mein Kampf for 70 yearsjewishvirtuallibrary.org and 3 more
  47. 1936Federico García Lorca was shot with three other men in August 1936, and a 2009 dig at the supposed grave in Alfacar found no remainsforoporlamemoria.info and 4 more
  48. 1917Queen Liliʻuokalani sued the United States for Hawaii's crown lands and lostWikipedia (English) and 2 more
  49. 1914Ambrose Bierce vanished in Mexico in 1913 or 1914, and a priest put a plaque in a Sierra Mojada cemetery in 2004 for the grave a witness describeddonswaim.com and 1 more
  50. 1910Tolstoy signed a secret will in the woods to give his copyrights to the publicProject Gutenberg and 4 more
  51. 1909Geronimo's descendants sued Skull and Bones in 2009 for the skull a member's 1918 letter says was taken from his grave, and a federal judge dismissed the casehistorynewsnetwork.org and 5 more
  52. 1900Oscar Wilde died bankrupt in Paris; his friend Robbie Ross bought back the rights and gave the income to Wilde's sonsthecanadianencyclopedia.ca and 1 more
  53. 1890Van Gogh's brother died six months after him, and Theo's widow built the reputation from the paintings she inheritedvangoghmuseum.nl and 3 more
  54. 1890Joseph Merrick's manager stole his savings, the London Hospital took him in, and after his death it kept his skeleton while his flesh went to an unmarked gravelondonmuseum.org.uk and 2 more
  55. 1727Isaac Newton died without a will, and his heirs held his alchemy and theology papers for 209 years before selling them for £9,000newtonproject.ox.ac.uk and 2 more
  56. 1724Thomas Guy sold his South Sea stock at the top of the 1720 bubble and left the profit to found Guy's Hospitalkingspast.kcl.ac.uk and 2 more
  57. 1617Pocahontas's son inherited Virginia land, and Virginia's 1924 race law made an exception that kept families claiming descent from her legally whiteUS National Park Service and 3 more
  58. 1616Shakespeare left his wife his "second best bed" and struck his new son-in-law out of the willnationalarchives.gov.uk and 3 more
  59. 1599In Shakespeare's Hamlet, an uncle kills the king, marries the widow and is chosen king over the son, and the crown ends with a foreign princeProject Gutenberg and 3 more
  60. 1547Henry VIII's will was signed with a stamp, not his hand, and its validity was disputed for 20 yearsdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk and 3 more
  61. 1535Henry VIII beheaded Thomas More and took the family's property, and his daughter bribed a man for his head, which a Canterbury parish voted in 2025 to dig upcanterbury-archaeology.org.uk and 4 more
  62. 1525Jakob Fugger paid for Charles V's election, and his heirs lost much of the fortune when the Spanish crown stopped payingEncyclopaedia Britannica and 7 more
  63. 1455Gutenberg's investor sued him in 1455 while the Bible was being printed, and Soviet officers carried one of the Bibles to Moscow in 1945gutenberg-gesellschaft.de and 2 more
  64. 1315Philip IV's treasurer was hanged on the Montfaucon gallows he had built, and the king who let him hang left legacies to his childrenEncyclopaedia Britannica and 2 more
  65. 1137Eleanor inherited Aquitaine at about 13, took it back when France annulled her marriage, and married the future king of England eight weeks laterfontevraud.fr and 2 more
  66. 899Alfred the Great's will answered his nephews' claim to their father's land, and one nephew rose against Alfred's sonbl.uk and 3 more
  67. 840Louis the Pious's sons deposed him twice and fought a battle at Fontenoy, and the Treaty of Verdun split the empire into the lands that became France and Germanysourcebooks.web.fordham.edu and 5 more
  68. 828The Bukhtishu physicians served the caliphs for six generations: one was sentenced to death, one died in exile, and one great-grandson was disinherited by his stepfatherjima.imana.org and 2 more
  69. 814Charlemagne's 811 division left two-thirds of his treasure to 21 archbishoprics and a silver table engraved with Constantinople to St Peter'ssourcebooks.fordham.edu and 2 more
  70. 711Justinian II lost his throne and his nose in 695, took Constantinople back in 705, and was killed with his son in 711Wikisource (primary text) and 3 more
  71. 524Clovis's sons sent their mother scissors and a sword, then killed two of their dead brother's sons and split his kingdomsourcebooks.fordham.edu and 4 more
  72. 524Theodoric had Boethius clubbed to death and seized his estates, and the king's daughter gave them back to his sonsUniversity of Chicago, LacusCurtius and 3 more