May 22, 2019

Aretha Franklin's last will found - on a couch

Three documents were discovered by Aretha Franklin’s niece Sabrina Owens - two handwritten wills from 2010 were found in a locked cabinet, and another from 2014 was found in a notebook underneath some couch cushions, the Associated Press reports. Franklin’s 2014 document requests that her son Kecalf Franklin serve as the estate’s personal representative - a role currently held by Owens. A breakdown from The Detroit Free Press offers a look at how Franklin reportedly wanted her property and money distributed to her family.