Aretha's Got Two Big ‘Uns, And Her Sons Are Fighting Over Them!

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Leave it to Aretha to have two of everything - including two handwritten Wills. In terms of the later, a trial on Monday will determine which will be honored and which of her four sons, along with a mess of grandchildren, will cash in on her recording catalog and royalties and an estate worth 80 million smackers. 

One of her handwritten Wills, I kid you not, was found stuffed in her couch cushions (amidst a mound of tater chips, fermented Werther's and enough candied pecans to choke every citizen in Detroit. Twice) (I keed, I keed). Sadly, if this goes on for any length of time, the only ones making any money will be the lawyers. I'm sure Aretha has an opinion about this, but then she famously had an opinion about everything. 

Somewhere in Heaven Land, Aretha's nemesis Tina Turner is cackling, because you know Tina took care of her business before she left this mortal coil - and used a lawyer with an actual computer and a printer. 


But then Aretha famously didn't give two fuques about what anyone thought about anything she did. After all, she had four different outfit changes at her open-casket viewing - with a funeral that lasted eight hours. Eight! Necessary? No. Did she care? Also no. 

(Photo credits: REX/Shutterstock)




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