A handwritten will by the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has been validated by a Michigan jury,
According to Page Six, the document was found in Franklin’s Detroit home and was written in 2014. The document highlighted how her estate would be settled once she passed away. Franklin died in 2018.
Franklin’s sons Kecalf and Edward believed the handwritten document should overwrite a 2010 will that was found in a cabinet, which would make the songs take business classes and obtain a degree to benefit from the estate. The more recent document did not have any education requirements.
The 2014 will state the two sons, and Franklin’s third, Ted White Jr., would get an equal split of the music royalties. Kecalf and his children get the Bloomfield Hills, Michigan home and her cars. The 2014 doc had Franklin’s signature on each page.
The estate is currently worth $6 million.
You can see the doc below.
A handwritten document found wedged beneath the cushions in Aretha Franklin’s couch is deemed to be a valid will under Michigan law. But what if… Aretha Franklin had been an Irish tech founder?
I run a thought experiment on one possible scenario:https://t.co/J3PkvtYrD8 pic.twitter.com/oQDBvdFYIi
— Conall Geraghty (@ConallMHC) July 13, 2023
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