A jury is to determine which of two handwritten wills found at Aretha Franklin’s home in Detroit, Michigan, is the late musician’s valid last testament, as disputed by her sons.
One was found in a cabinet, dated June 2010, which Ted White II, Franklin’s third son, claims is her true will and lists him as co-executor. Kecalf Franklin and Edward Franklin, her second and fourth sons, say a will discovered in a spiral notebook under a cushion, dated March 2014, is in fact the primary will. In the latter, Kecalf is the co-executor and would inherit his mother’s $1.2m (£934,000) gated mansion.
