Legendary screen actor Paul Newman probably died a wealthy man. We can't know for sure just looking at his will. But we can see that the will was as smart and straight-forward as Newman's career. The will, a public...
Robert Craig Knievel, purportedly nicknamed “Evel” by police after an arrest for stealing hubcaps off cars, was born on Oct. 17, 1938 in Butte, Mont., and died in Clearwater, Fla., on Nov. 20, 2007, at the...
Robert Craig Knievel, purportedly nicknamed by police after an arrest for stealing hubcaps off cars, was born on Oct. 17, 1938 in Butte, Mont., and died in Clearwater, Fla., on Nov. 20, 2007, at the age of 69. His...
It could've gotten ugly. There certainly were enough high-powered lawyers on the case and enough money at stake. But apparently, everybody involved decided that Trouble wasn't worth it. Trouble the dog, that is. Soon...
The shock of actor Heath Ledger's untimely death has passed, but questions still linger. Although only 28 when he died, Ledger had a will. Yet the multi-millionaire left his only child with a mere $145,000. The...
During Leona Helmsley's lifetime, the real estate mogul and hotel magnate was reviled for allegedly saying only the little people pay taxes, then going to jail for failing to do so, much to the glee of the New York...
On April 17, 2007, the nation lost a grande dame of the arts and culture: Kitty Carlisle Hart, chair of the New York State Council on the Arts from 1976 to 1996, a woman who had an extraordinarily long and varied...
As a practicing trusts-and-estates attorney, I approached a book with a plot about an unusual bequest in a last will and testament and whose narrator was an 80-year-old lawyer with great anticipation. Jim Stovall's...
The star-studded movie Bobby has put the untimely death of Robert F. Kennedy back in the news of late. But really, the Kennedys, even those long-deceased, are always interesting as are their wills. And Bobby Kennedy's...
Can a man savvy enough to have a telephone in his shoe decades before the invention of the cell phone ever be out of touch? Sadly, Don Adams the comedian who brought the goofy but ever-triumphant Maxwell Smart to life...
