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Evening Standard
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Jacob Phillips

Beach Boys' Brian Wilson needs conservatorship due to mental decline, court finds

A judge has found that Beach Boys founder and music luminary Brian Wilson should be in a court conservatorship to manage his personal and medical decisions due to what his doctor calls a "major neurocognitive disorder".

At a hearing on Thursday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gus T. May approved the petition filed by the 81-year-old Wilson's family and inner circle after the death of his wife Melinda Ledbetter Wilson in January, who handled most of his tasks and affairs.

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