Aretha Franklin’s Couch-Cushions Will Wins Out
A Michigan jury has decided that a handwritten document found stuffed in couch cushions at Aretha Franklin’s home after her 2018 death is her valid will.
Jurors deliberated for less than an hour after a two-day trial in Oakland County Probate Court after hearing testimony from two of Franklin’s four children.
The decision officially settles a question that has caused a rift in the Franklin family: Who inherits the estate she left when she died of pancreatic cancer inside her Bloomfield Hills home?