Blog Posts in Celebrity Estates

American musician Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, the front man for the 1960s band The Velvet Underground, left majority of his $15 million estate to his wife, Laurie Anderson. Reed, who underwent a liver ...

To continue our blog on Fiduciary Trust International of California v. Superior Court, Betty Brown (decedent), changed her will after Willet's death. Instead of leaving the majority of Betty's assets ...

As we mourn the loss of a great actor who moved us with his performance as Mafia boss Tony Soprano in "The Sopranos", we also take this opportunity to look at the tax ramifications of his estate ...

To continue our discussion on the Marvin claim from a previous blog, Michelle appealed the trial court's decision favoring the defendant, Lee Marvin, wherein the court cited that Michelle's ...

Marvin v. Marvin (18 Cal. 3d 660 (1976)) is a landmark "palimony" case which held that a contract between unmarried partners was enforceable unless it was based on an illicit or unlawful ...

Just like winning a lottery, two actors got lucky when a fan left them his estate worth over a million dollars when he died in July of last year. The fan was Ray Fulk, a 71 year old hermit who lived ...