BBC reports a Michigan jury has ruled a 2014 document found in Aretha Franklin’s couch after her death is a valid will to her multi-million dollar estate.
Tuesday’s verdict ends a nearly five-year legal squabble within the family.
When Franklin died from pancreatic cancer in August 2018, it was widely believed she had not prepared a will.
However, nine months later, her niece Sabrina Owens – the estate’s executor at the time – discovered two separate sets of handwritten documents at the singer’s home in Detroit.