‘I’m better off dead. I’m done’: Michael Jackson’s fateful prediction just a week before his death Ian Halperin June 29, 2009 Daily Mail/Mail Online http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196009/Im-better-dead-Im-How-Michael-Jackson-predicted-death-months-ago.html# -Genetic condition had ruined his lungs and left him unable to sing -He became so skeletal, doctors believed he was anorexic -He had nightmares about being murdered – and wanted Keep Reading…
Lawyers for Michael Jackson’s parents evaluating 2002 will Harriet Ryan June 30, 2009 Los Angeles Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/lawyers-for-michael-jacksons-parents-evaluating-2002-will.html Legal advisers for Michael Jackson’s parents are evaluating a 2002 will that surfaced recently in the possession of a longtime associate of the performer, their lead attorney said today. “I just saw the will for the first time Keep Reading…
Maid: Document is Not the One Astor Signed Says Socialite’s Signature Was Faint Scrawl Laura Italiano June 30, 2009 New York Post http://www.nypost.com/seven/06302009/news/regionalnews/manhattan/maid__document_is_not_the_one_astor_sign_176884.htm When philanthropist Brooke Astor signed the final amendment to her will, the 101-year-old invalid rendered a signature so spindly and pale, a housemaid worried that in time it might disappear entirely. Manhattan Keep Reading…
Fortune gift of love, says Chan Nickkita Lau/Adele Wong June 30, 2009 The Standard http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=84182&sid=24393810&con_type=1&d_str=20090630&sear_year=2009 Tony Chan Chun-chuen said tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum loved him so much she was prepared to leave her entire estate to him in a 2006 will. Chan said Wang did not really care for the Chinachem Charitable Foundation and Keep Reading…
Bernie Madoff’s 150-year prison sentence is a good thing, but it also is a hollow victory for the clients he betrayed. The people who invested with Madoff bear culpability (up to 900% annual returns? really?), still though, he robbed people of more than money. He stole the success of their past and the future they Keep Reading…
Estate of Denial® provides news, analysis and commentary on abusive practices occurring in probate courts and via probate instruments (wills, trusts, guardianships, powers of attorney). We provide original perspective to educate the public regarding this growing threat to both individual freedoms and property rights.An estate lawyer accused of a “wrongful scheme” to steer money to himself from the estates of the late June M. Farrington and her surviving brother will pay back $410,000 as part of a settlement. Estate lawyer Stephen M. Newman also resigned as executor and trustee of all of the estates and trusts he set Keep Reading…
Shannon Price failed to prove that she and Gary Coleman had a common-law marriage after their 2009 divorce. Fourth District Judge James R. Taylor ruled Monday that while Price had lived in the former “Diff’rent Strokes” star’s home after their marriage ended, the relationship failed to meet the state’s standard for a common-law marriage. “There Keep Reading…
Police Detective Jason Takacs has two thick files filled with paperwork supporting charges that a local deli owner bilked three elderly siblings of more than $200,000. Takacs credits cooperation among police, People’s United Bank, the Fairfield Probate Court and a forensic accountant from the chief state’s attorney’s office with the Thursday arrest of Carmella Jamshidian, Keep Reading…
Here’s more big government “smoke and mirrors” from the state of Texas. In watching media postings across the country, it’s highly trendy to decry the need to protect the elderly and the vulnerable. It makes people feel good to think “someone” is out there with an eye on things. Problem comes in that those “someones” Keep Reading…
Two of Don Barden’s siblings have alleged “gross irregularities” in the handling of the late casino mogul’s estate, including a potentially phony trust agreement. “It quite simply appears to be a fraud,” Farmington Hills attorney Steven Cohen charged in court papers last month. He represents Helen Robinson and Douglas Barden, who are challenging the validity Keep Reading…
