Jury rules that document found under a cushion is Aretha Franklin’s will
completemusicupdate.comA jury in Michigan has concluded that a 2014 handwritten document found under a cushion on a sofa can be considered the last will and testament of Aretha Franklin.
It means that the late musician’s estate is now likely to be managed and distributed according to the wishes set out in that document.After Franklin died in 2018, two documents were found in her home that could constitute a will, one from 2010 and one from 2014.
How her four children will benefit from Franklin’s estate varies according to which will is enforced. These differences were significant enough to trigger a legal dispute between the siblings.One of her sons, Theodore Richard White, would benefit more from the 2010 document.
He argued that the 2014 document, while more recent, was incomplete and therefore only a draft. It was written in two different inks, there were gaps in the document, and his mother had left it under a cushion on the sofa in her home.
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