A handwritten will by singer Aretha Franklin that was found under her sofa cushions after her death in 2019 was stated to be a valid Michigan will, as ruled by a jury. The decision became a ...

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is a valid Michigan will, a jury said Tuesday, a critical turn in a dispute ...

Nekesa Mumbi Moody, global entertainment and lifestyles editor, New York, and Ed White, reporter, Detroit, collaborated on a scoop that three wills purported to be written by the late “Queen of Soul” ...

Aretha welcomed her first son, Clarence Franklin, when she was just a preteen ... White Jr. embroiled in a legal battle regarding two handwritten documents — one from 2010 and one from ...