Just after the Aretha Franklin’s death, two handwritten and conflicting wills were found hidden in her suburban Detroit home. Now a jury will decide if one is legally enforceable.
Michigan jurors will only be tasked with deciding whether a 2014 scribbled note found in Aretha Franklin’s couch cushions can be accepted as the Queen of Soul’s valid will, a judge ordered on Monday.
Eight months after her death, however, two handwritten and conflicting wills were found hidden in her Bloomfield Hills home. Now, three of Franklin’s four sons are divided over how to split their mother’s estate. A March 2014 will, which was scribbled in a spiral notebook and stuffed in a couch cushion, offers a new version of Franklin’s last wishes. The second will, notably, crossed out White’s name as an executor and replaced it with Kecalf Franklin—and excluded any mention of business classes. Kecalf would also stand to inherit Franklin’s cars and two of her four homes.
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