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  1. 2025Brian Wilson was placed in a conservatorship after his wife died, while his first wife sued for half of a $50 million rights saledigitalmusicnews.com and 4 more
  2. 2025A year after Ozzy Osbourne died, Sharon Osbourne asked the High Court to remove his accountant of more than 40 years as executoraccountingtoday.com and 3 more
  3. 2024Norman Jewison's three children sued after he changed his will two months before his death in 2024; the claims were settled by mediation and never tested in courtcbc.ca and 3 more
  4. 2022Wendy Williams has been under a guardianship since 2022 and is still asking a New York court to end itatlantablackstar.com and 3 more
  5. 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
  6. 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
  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. 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
  9. 2016The 6th Duke of Westminster's £9 billion estate passed in trust to his 25-year-old son over three daughtersThe Guardian and 7 more
  10. 2016Harper Lee's second novel was published when she was frail and her lawyer controlled her affairs; her will stayed sealed until The New York Times suedthebookseller.com and 3 more
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 2014Robin Williams's widow and three children fought in a San Francisco court over his belongings, and the children got more than 85 watchesjournals.law.harvard.edu and 12 more
  14. 2013Nelson Mandela's grandson moved three of Mandela's children's graves to his own village, and 16 relatives won a court order to return them to Qunu in 2013mg.co.za and 4 more
  15. 2013Mandela's eldest daughter put his ID card, shirts and a Robben Island key up for auction in New York, and the state fought the sale to the Constitutional CourtSmithsonian Magazine and 2 more
  16. 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
  17. 2012Donna Summer's estate refused Kanye West permission to use "I Feel Love," sued when he used it anyway, and made him agree never to distribute the songthegrio.com and 3 more
  18. 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
  19. 2009Two barristers bought Countess Markievicz's childhood home and spent seven years in court with Sligo County Council over its avenuesThe Irish Times and 5 more
  20. 2008Choi Jin-sil's ex-husband regained rights over her children the day she died, and a fan stole her ashes from her graveThe Korea Times and 6 more
  21. 2008Miriam Makeba's grandchildren fought her own trustees for her music, and the state paid their lawyers until the Public Protector ruled it unlawfulnews24.com and 4 more
  22. 2007Ike Turner wrote two handwritten wills and revoked one; a judge found he died with no valid willsandiegouniontribune.com and 1 more
  23. 2005Rosa Parks left almost all her estate to her institute, her 13 nieces and nephews contested the will, and a 2007 settlement gave them 20 percentlaw.resource.org and 10 more
  24. 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
  25. 2003Strom Thurmond's family confirmed his Black daughter six months after his death, and South Carolina added her name to his monumentThe New York Times and 4 more
  26. 2003Johnny Cash's trust sued Coca-Cola for using a tribute singer who sounds like himfox10phoenix.com and 2 more
  27. 2003Nina Simone left most of her estate to a trust for African children; the California Attorney General said her daughter diverted it, and the daughter resigned and gave up the rightsoag.ca.gov and 5 more
  28. 2002A Jersey accountant sued to open Princess Margaret's sealed will to prove he was her secret sonThe National Archives, Find Case Law and 1 more
  29. 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
  30. 2001Zhang Xueliang inherited his murdered father's Manchurian army in 1928 and spent more than 50 years in detentionlibrary.columbia.edu and 4 more
  31. 2001Anthony Quinn bought 29 acres on Rhodes in 1960, a Greek court cancelled the sale in 1984, and he died before he was repaidtovima.com and 4 more
  32. 1999Fred Trump's grandchildren contested his will in 2000, and Donald Trump and 2 siblings cut off health insurance for them and an ailing babygibsondunn.com and 4 more
  33. 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
  34. 1997James Michener gave away about $117 million and left the bulk of his estate to Swarthmore CollegeInternet Archive and 3 more
  35. 1995Lana Turner left her daughter $50,000 and the rest of a $1.7 million trust to her maid of 45 yearsLos Angeles Times and 1 more
  36. 1995Jerry Garcia's widow barred his ex-wives from his funeral and stopped paying his $5 million divorce settlementus.cnn.com and 3 more
  37. 1995J. Howard Marshall II's widow Anna Nicole Smith won $474 million in a bankruptcy court, and after two Supreme Court cases her estate got nothingCornell Law School, LII and 8 more
  38. 1994Martha Raye married a man 33 years younger and left him her $2 million estate, after her daughter sued for conservatorshipamericanhistory.si.edu and 3 more
  39. 1992Gina Rinehart's children sued her for control of a $5 billion family trust, and her daughter replaced her as trusteeInternet Archive and 2 more
  40. 1991Dr. Seuss's widow ran his licensing for 27 years; three years after her death his estate pulled six of his booksWikipedia (English) and 1 more
  41. 1990Jim Henson died during a $150 million sale to Disney, his children ended the deal and sued Disney, and the Muppets went to Disney anyway in 2004The Seattle Times and 4 more
  42. 1988Chiang Ching-kuo never acknowledged his twin sons, and one of them took the Chiang name 63 years latercna.com.tw and 5 more
  43. 1987Fred Astaire's widow charged fees for clips of him, lost a federal appeal over 90 seconds of film, and licensed him to a vacuum maker over his daughter's objectionlaw.resource.org and 4 more
  44. 1987Clint Murchison Jr. inherited an oil fortune, bought the Dallas Cowboys for $550,000, and died $100 million short of his debtsUPI and 2 more
  45. 1984Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father, left no will and $9 million in debt, and his children won the "Blurred Lines" caseinvestmentnews.com and 2 more
  46. 1982Randy Rhoads's mother gave filmmakers his photos for a documentary that never came out, and an appeals court let them publish a book insteadblabbermouth.net and 4 more
  47. 1980H.L. Hunt's sons bought a third of the world's silver, lost more than $1 billion, and filed for bankruptcy after a Peruvian state company won in courtDeseret News and 2 more
  48. 1979John Wayne's heirs ended an 11-year trademark fight with Duke University after agreeing that no letter of DUKE on their liquor will be bluettabvue.uspto.gov and 14 more
  49. 1979A French woman sued Darryl F. Zanuck's estate for $15 million in 1980, saying his son had her cut from the will; the case ended in 1988 with her claim going to a universityUPI and 4 more
  50. 1978Norman Rockwell's sons sued to stop the Berkshire Museum selling paintings he gave it, and Shuffleton's Barbershop went to George Lucas's museumberkshiremuseum.org and 10 more
  51. 1977Joan Crawford's will left out Christina and Christopher "for reasons which are well known to them"Internet Archive and 6 more
  52. 1977Elvis Presley's probate judge ruled that Colonel Parker's 50 percent share "shocks the conscience of the court" and ordered the estate to sue himCourtListener and 10 more
  53. 1976Howard Hughes left no valid will, a jury found the Mormon will naming Melvin Dummar a forgery, and Texas and California fought over his death taxesCornell Law School, LII and 11 more
  54. 1974Charles Lindbergh had seven secret children in Germany, confirmed by DNA 29 years after his deathmnhs.org and 2 more
  55. 1974Oilman H.L. Hunt had three families with 15 children, and the wife from his bigamous marriage sued his heirs four years after his deathUPI and 3 more
  56. 1973Pearl S. Buck left three contradictory wills, a dance instructor and her seven adopted children fought for six years, and a Vermont court found undue influenceinquirer.com and 4 more
  57. 1972Edward VIII gave up the throne, sold Sandringham and Balmoral to his brother, and hid how much money he hadWikipedia (English) and 1 more
  58. 1969Judy Garland's fifth husband buried her in New York; 48 years later her children moved her to HollywoodCBS News and 3 more
  59. 1968A jury awarded John Steinbeck's stepdaughter more than $13 million against his son's family for blocking films of his novelsusatoday.com and 3 more
  60. 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
  61. 1965T. S. Eliot's 1,131 letters to Emily Hale stayed sealed at Princeton for 60 years, and Harvard released his own denial the same daypwb.princeton.edu and 3 more
  62. 1963Sylvia Plath died separated but not divorced, so Ted Hughes inherited her work and destroyed her last journalnybooks.com and 3 more
  63. 1963A Lewis scholar says he saved C. S. Lewis's papers from a bonfire; a critic charged in 1988 that the story and an unfinished novel were a hoaxchristianitytoday.com and 2 more
  64. 1959Frank Lloyd Wright's grave in Wisconsin was emptied 26 years after his burial, and his body was cremated for Arizonaarabnews.pk and 4 more
  65. 1959Buddy Holly's widow charged Lubbock to use his name, and the city renamed its festival and walk of famekcbd.com and 3 more
  66. 1957Laura Ingalls Wilder left her book royalties to a Missouri library after her daughter's death; the daughter's heir renewed the copyrights, and a 2001 settlement paid the library $875,000The Seattle Times and 2 more
  67. 1956Angela Merkel returned two Emil Nolde paintings to the Berlin museum foundation in April 2019, as a Nationalgalerie show detailed his Nazi loyaltysmb.museum and 3 more
  68. 1956Robert Walser was found dead in the snow in 1956 after 23 years in an asylum, and his guardian Carl Seelig controlled the microscripts until 1962vqronline.org and 4 more
  69. 1955Ann Woodward shot her husband, the owner of Nashua, a grand jury cleared her in 30 minutes, and both her sons later killed themselvesbiography.com and 2 more
  70. 1955James Dean died without a will, his father inherited, his wrecked Porsche vanished in 1960, and his estate sued Twitter over @JamesDeanThe Seattle Times and 5 more
  71. 1953Hank Williams' daughter was born five days after his death, made a ward of the state, and won half his estate 34 years laterpeople.com and 2 more
  72. 1950George Orwell married Sonia Brownell in a hospital in October 1949 and died in January 1950; his estate's accountant ran his rights until she sued in 1979washingtonmonthly.com and 3 more
  73. 1949Margaret Mitchell's estate sued to stop a novel retelling Gone With the Wind from the view of a slave, and ended up funding a Black collegeopenjurist.org and 3 more
  74. 1948Zelda Fitzgerald died locked in a fifth-floor room when fire destroyed Highland Hospital in 1948; nine women died and no one was chargeddncr.nc.gov and 2 more
  75. 1946Hitler was godfather to Göring's daughter, the city of Cologne gave her a Cranach, and she lost the painting in 1968 and her father's estate in 2015thelocal.de and 2 more
  76. 1945Béla Bartók's New York estate was in court for 22 years, and the trustee claimed his manuscriptsCourtListener and 4 more
  77. 1944Rommel took poison on 14 October 1944 in exchange for a state funeral and pensions for his familyifz-muenchen.de and 3 more
  78. 1943Beatrix Potter left more than 4,000 acres and 14 or 15 farms to the National Trust, with a life interest for her husbandbeatrixpottersociety.org.uk and 3 more
  79. 1942L.M. Montgomery's death certificate said coronary thrombosis; her granddaughter wrote in 2008 that she took her own lifecbc.ca and 3 more
  80. 1940Paul Klee's widow sold his estate for SFr120,000 two days before dying; his son sued the foundation that received it, and the case settled after four yearsarchive.zpk.org and 3 more
  81. 1936George V's doctor injected him with morphine and cocaine so his death would make the morning papersThe New York Times and 1 more
  82. 1936Four states and the United States claimed $37.7 million in death taxes from Hetty Green's son's $36 million estateCornell Law School, LII and 3 more
  83. 1934Hindenburg's Neudeck estate was put in his son's name, and Hitler's government added tax-free landtext-message.blogs.archives.gov and 5 more
  84. 1928Earl Haig was given £100,000 by Parliament and an estate by public subscription, and his earldom has no heir in 2026The Gazette and 3 more
  85. 1924Hugo Stinnes had a hand in more than 4,000 companies when he died in 1924, and his sons lost most of them within a yeardeutsche-biographie.de and 2 more
  86. 1923Nan Britton lost her libel suit over Warren Harding's daughter in 1931, and DNA proved the daughter was his in 2015The New York Times and 4 more
  87. 1920Roche's founder lost control of his company in the 1919 crisis, and his heirs used a voting pool and a $20.7 billion buyback from Novartis to hold itassets.roche.com and 3 more
  88. 1917Queen Liliʻuokalani sued the United States for Hawaii's crown lands and lostWikipedia (English) and 2 more
  89. 1917Henry Flagler's widow left $5 million to her new husband in a codicil signed eight days before she died, and her family dug up her bodyebsco.com and 2 more
  90. 1913Rudolf Diesel vanished from a Channel steamer in 1913 and left his wife a bag of money with papers showing his debtsSmithsonian Magazine and 3 more
  91. 1912Bram Stoker's widow sued over Nosferatu, and a German court ordered every copy of the film destroyedEncyclopaedia Britannica and 3 more
  92. 1910Mark Twain fired his secretary Isabel Lyon in 1909 and wrote 429 pages accusing her and her husband, a text kept private until 2015lynncullen.com and 1 more
  93. 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
  94. 1907Cassie Chadwick said she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter, borrowed against forged Carnegie notes, and broke an Ohio bankcase.edu and 3 more
  95. 1906John D. Rockefeller's father lived 50 years as "Dr. Levingston" with a second wife and was buried under the false nameLibrary of Congress and 4 more
  96. 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
  97. 1898Lewis Carroll's diaries lost four volumes and ten pages before reaching the British Library in 1969; his Alice manuscript sold at Sotheby's in 1928contrariwise.info and 3 more
  98. 1891Moltke bought Kreisau with his 1866 war grant; his great-grandnephew was hanged in 1945 and the family lost the estatekrzyzowa.pl and 4 more
  99. 1891Herman Melville's widow tied his unpublished papers in bundles in 1891, and Billy Budd stayed in a breadbox until a biographer opened it in 1919harvardfilmarchive.org and 3 more
  100. 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
  101. 1885Grant lost his savings in the Grant & Ward fraud and wrote memoirs that paid his widow about $450,000US National Park Service and 5 more
  102. 1880Gold was found on John Sutter's land in 1848, his son built Sacramento on it against his wishes, and he died in a Washington hotel waiting for Congress to pay himWikisource (primary text) and 2 more
  103. 1873Livingstone's heart was buried in Zambia, his body was carried 1,000 miles to Westminster Abbey, and his son died in a Confederate prison under a false namewestminster-abbey.org and 8 more
  104. 1873Johns Hopkins left $7 million in railroad stock to found a hospital, the stock stopped paying, and records found in 2020 showed he had owned slavesSmithsonian Magazine and 2 more
  105. 1870Dickens left £1,000 to the actress he hid for 12 years, and burned 20 years of letters in his gardengresham.ac.uk and 3 more
  106. 1852In Dickens's Bleak House, the Jarndyce will case runs for generations until the legal costs have swallowed the estateProject Gutenberg and 3 more
  107. 1850Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson's daughter was ruled illegitimate, and a Kentucky court gave his estate to his brothersLibrary of Congress and 4 more
  108. 1826Thomas Jefferson's will freed his two youngest sons by Sally Hemings, and his debts sent 130 enslaved people to auctionnature.com and 4 more
  109. 1817Kelly Clarkson bought Jane Austen's ring for 152,450 pounds in 2012, and Britain barred export until a museum raised the same summuseumsassociation.org and 3 more
  110. 1805Weimar buried a skull as Friedrich Schiller's in 1827; DNA tests in 2008 showed it and the skeleton were not hisNBC News and 2 more
  111. 1799Washington's will freed 123 people, his heir sold 54 more, and the family sold Mount Vernon for $200,000founders.archives.gov and 3 more
  112. 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
  113. 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
  114. 1721Edward Colston's charities carried his name for 300 years, until protesters threw his statue in Bristol harbourCourts and Tribunals Judiciary and 3 more
  115. 1718William Penn went to debtors' prison while he owned Pennsylvania, and his heirs later traded 24 million acres for £130,000 and a £4,000 British annuitybedsarchivescat.bedford.gov.uk and 11 more
  116. 1703Robert Hooke said he would endow the Royal Society, died without a will, and cousins he barely knew took the moneymathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk and 2 more
  117. 1675Vermeer died with 11 children and debts; his widow paid creditors in paintings and petitioned for bankruptcyWikipedia (English) and 1 more
  118. 1642Saskia's will let Rembrandt use their son's inheritance only if he never remarried, and he lived unmarried and went bankruptassets.cambridge.org and 4 more
  119. 1618James I gave Walter Raleigh's Sherborne estate to his favourite over a missing phrase in a trust deed, and Raleigh's widow kept his embalmed head for 29 yearsSmithsonian Magazine and 5 more
  120. 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
  121. 1616Shakespeare left his wife his "second best bed" and struck his new son-in-law out of the willnationalarchives.gov.uk and 3 more
  122. 1601Tycho Brahe's heirs were never paid for his observations, so they took them back from Kepler and won the right to censor his bookscambridge.org and 3 more
  123. 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
  124. 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
  125. 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
  126. 1487Queen Charlotte of Cyprus lost her throne to her father's illegitimate son and signed her crowns of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Armenia over to Savoymedievalists.net and 3 more