Word: executor
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Elvis had left his entire estate to Lisa Marie, naming his father Vernon executor until Lisa Marie reached age 25. Vernon, who died in 1979, named Priscilla, who was not an heir, as executor. Vernon believed, no doubt correctly, that with dozens of bankers and lawyers circling the estate, Priscilla was the one insider most likely to keep the interests of her daughter at heart...
...LAFFERTY, 51, the reportedly hard-drinking and spendthrift butler who won the trust of tobacco heiress Doris Duke; of yet-to-be-determined causes; in Los Angeles. After prosecutors cleared him of allegations that he had conspired to hasten Duke's death, he resigned his lucrative position as co-executor of her $1.2 billion estate and settled for $4.5 million plus $500,000 a year...
...pinch pennies. They have seen the value of the estate they inherited two years ago jump as much as two-thirds in four days, with the auction producing something for them that their mother's will did not: millions in ready cash. Alexander Forger, a lawyer and co-executor, told the Washington Post that the value of the Jackie O. estate was $45 million to $50 million before the auction. But most of that was in trusts that must give their income to charity and the principal, eventually, to Jackie's grandchildren...
...from the double murder, one filed by the parents of murder victim Ron Goldman, Fred Goldman and Sharon Rufo (the two are divorced but have now joined their suits); and another on behalf of Nicole Brown's estate (Louis Brown, father of the slain Nicole, is the estate's executor). Depositions in the Goldman suit were to have started this week but were postponed until Oct. 30 after Simpson hired a new attorney, civil litigator Robert Baker. It's rare for acquitted criminal defendants to be hit with such suits, which carry no jail time but could result in multimillion...
...scholars have had access to Williams' correspondence before now. Williams' friend Lady Maria St. Just, the former executor of his estate who died last year, blocked access to many of his papers during her life-time...