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Lessons Learned From Celebrity Estates: Structuring Estate Plans to Avoid Missteps

A live 110-minute CPE webinar with interactive Q&A

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

1:00pm-2:50pm EDT, 10:00am-11:50am PDT

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, May 30, 2025

or call 1-800-926-7926

This webinar will analyze several celebrities' estate plans and highlight the positive and negative aspects of these plans. Our panel of wealth strategists will offer legacy planning advice for high net worth individuals utilizing these examples.

Description

Estate planning missteps made by celebrities mirror those often made by affluent individuals. Other than being famous, and often worth more after death, these individuals' estate plans are like most others. And, like many others, there may be no estate plan or will. Primarily, individuals and trust and estate professionals would like to ensure assets are distributed to heirs as intended, avoid litigation, and preserve their legacy.

Failure to devise an estate plan, update an estate plan, or not incorporate uncertainties in inheritance plans all have consequences. Recently, Gene Hackman predeceased his much younger wife of 30 years. Their wills were outdated, and it is doubtful he considered that his wife might pass first. No one can be certain their assets will be distributed as they intended.

All estate plans are unique; however, reviewing the estate plans of the rich and famous offers invaluable planning tips and techniques applicable to all estates.

Listen as our panel of trusted estate planning attorneys describes the estate plans of famous individuals and offers recommendations that taxpayers and trust and estate professionals should consider.

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Outline

  1. Lessons learned from celebrity estates: introduction
  2. Prince
  3. Aretha Franklin
  4. Gene Hackman
  5. Richard Simmons
  6. Rupert Murdoch
  7. Other celebrity estates
  8. Lessons learned
  9. Best practices

Benefits

The panel will cover these and other key issues:

  • Wealth transfer missteps to avoid using examples from celebrity estates
  • Utilizing estate plans to ensure assets are distributed to heirs as intended
  • The caveats of not having an updated estate plan
  • Steps to mitigate litigation in estates

Faculty

Friedman, Susan
Susan L. (Susie) Friedman

Partner
Kohrman Jackson & Krantz

Ms. Friedman has spent more than two decades helping individuals and families strategize to protect and preserve their...  |  Read More

Sabio Socrates, Christine
Christine Sabio (Tina) Socrates

Partner
Kohrman Jackson & Krantz

Ms. Sabio Socrates (“Tina”) brings over 25 years of experience in estate planning and probate law,...  |  Read More

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