Jury Decides To Respect Aretha Franklin’s Apparent Wishes, Rules Handwritten Document Found In Couch Is Valid Will

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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated July 13, 2023

An almost five-year long legal quagmire has finally come to an end after a Michigan jury delivered a ruling in the Aretha Franklin estate case, deciding that a 2014 document found in the couch was a valid will.

When Franklin succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2018, “it was widely believed she had not prepared a will to roughly $6m in real estate, cash,

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