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Daniel Nancoo
Aretha Franklin may have been the Queen of Soul, but she certainly was not the Queen of record-keeping. Her failure to ensure that her last will and testament was properly recorded and safely stored, resulted in a five-year long dispute over her vast estate among her children after her death in 2018 .
When Aretha died from cancer in August 2018, it was widely believed by family members that she had not prepared a will dictating how her assets of roughly US$6,000,000 ($40,000,000) in real estate, cash, gold records and furs, or to her music copyrights would be managed.
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