Aretha Franklin Reportedly Had $1 Million Worth Of Uncashed Checks

Aretha Franklin sadly passed away on August 16th last year from pancreatic cancer and new reports now suggest that the “Respect” singer had more than enough money laying around in the form uncashed checks. According to Billboard, a new inventory Aretha’s assets found checks from Sound Exchange, Screen Writers Guild, her publishing company Springtime Publishing, as well as EMI, BMI, Carlin Music and Feel Good Films. One check amounted to $702,711.90 while another was for $285,944.27 with a grand total  $988,656.17.

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When Aretha passed it was reported that she had no will leaving her assets to be divided into four for her sons Clarence, Edward, Teddy and Kecalf. Nine months after her passing, it was revealed that three wills had been found in Aretha’s home, meaning the splitting assets would be changed. Each Aretha’s children grabbed a lawyer and appointed their cousin Sabrina Owens as the representative Aretha’s estate but her work is not being praised. 

“It is totally unacceptable that it has taken a year for the heirs to begin find out what their mother owned on the date her death,” Kecalf’s attorneys stated ni documents. “To date, the heirs still do not know what was owned on Aretha Franklin’s date death.”