Aretha Franklin died nearly five years ago, but her last wishes remain the subject of a knotty legal fight.
, closing the curtains on one of the most illustrious careers in American popular music. But in at least one crucial respect, her story is not over.remain an open question
Three of Franklin’s four sons are divided on the future of their mother’s estate. Ted White II, Franklin’s third son, believes a document from 2010 should hold sway, while Kecalf Franklin and Edward Franklin, her second and fourth sons, prefer a document dated March 31, 2014, according to court filings submitted to Oakland County Probate Court in Pontiac, Michigan.
Don Wilson, a Los Angeles entertainment lawyer who represented Franklin for nearly 30 years, told NBC News that he strongly advised her to prepare a formal will. But she may have been resistant to taking that step, he said. The two documents at issue in the trial were uncovered in the spring of 2019: the one from 2010 was found in a closet, the one from 2014 was discovered stuffed in a sofa. Both of the documents appear to say that Franklin’s children should share royalty income from her music and copyrights. But the singer’s sons are fiercely split on other matters.
The more recent document also states that Kecalf Franklin would inherit his mother’s primary residence inside an exclusive gated community in Bloomfield Hills, an affluent suburb of Detroit.
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