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Wacky Wills
Articles in this section highlight Wills that contain some interesting, and sometimes bizarre, bequests and stipulations.
If you are a Star Trek fan like me, you’ve heard of Gene Roddenberry. He is the man who created and produced the original Star Trek series and inspired the production of related shows including
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It has been said that Americans have love affairs with cars, but but one person took that love to an extreme. Sandra Illene West was a Texas oil heiress and Beverly Hills socialite who died
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Leona Helmsley left her dog, Trouble, $12 million in trust, but that amount seems paltry considering the amount Austrian Countess Carlotta Liebenstein left her dog. When she died in 1991, she left her entire $80
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Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher who died in 1832, included a very bizarre stipulation in his will. He gave his body to his friend, Dr. Thomas Southwood Smith, instructing him to preserve his body and
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TM Zink was a lawyer who noted an “intense hatred of women” in his will. Evidently this was not based on an personal differences he had with them, but rather “the result of my experiences
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Ed Headrick was the inventor of the Frisbee and of the sport, Disc Golf. His son, Dan, recalls him joking that he wanted to live on as a Frisbee. His children didn’t think he was
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Charles Millar, a successful lawyer in Toronto, Canada was well known for his practical jokes. And when he died on October 31, 1925, having never married and without any close relatives, he left a will
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If you had no family and few friends, how would you want your assets distributed when you die? Would you leave your estate to charity? Would you consider leaving everything to complete strangers? In 1988,
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Not many parents would feel comfortable having the body of their dead child propped up against their living room wall for any amount of time. But Angel Pantoja Medina’s mother wanted to fulfill her dead
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Samuel Bratt loved to smoke cigars. Unfortunately, his wife didn’t share his passion and would not let him smoke them. Obviously bitter, Samuel Bratt used his will to get even. When he died in 1960,
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