CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

July 11, 2023 JMG Community, Open Thread

A jury determined a handwritten document found in Aretha Franklin’s couch is a valid will, a major development after years of her kids battling over her estate. The ruling on the hard-to-read pages came in Tuesday in a Michigan court. The will was found in 2019 — the year after she passed — in a notebook tucked under the couch in Aretha’s Detroit home.

The docs, dated March 31, 2014, are significantly different from a 2010 draft of her will. The newer pages apparently designate her sons Kecalf and Edward as executors of her $6 million estate, and it looks like the name “Teddy,” AKA Ted White II — their brother who was pinned as executor in the 2010 version — is crossed out.

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BREAKING: A document handwritten by Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is a valid Michigan will, a jury said. https://t.co/RX5HrrXrOw

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 11, 2023