Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Nearly eight years after Prince’s death, his heirs have gone to court with two former associates of the artist in the latest round of the long, expensive and complex battle over control over his estate.
The lawsuit, made public Wednesday in Delaware court, pits four of the artist’s heirs against two of his former business associates in a fight over control of Prince Legacy LLC.
That entity is one of two holding companies created in 2022 to run the late artist’s $156 million estate. Primary Wave, which owns the other half of the estate outright, is not involved in the dispute; the lawsuit was first reported by Billboard.
The process of settling Prince’s estate has been marred by legal battles nearly every step of the way, largely because he died in 2016 without leaving a will — a tragic irony for an artist who had fought tenaciously for control of the rights to his music.
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