Here are a few of the biggest family fights when it comes to money!
9 - No Relief Malik Halfacre told his baby mama Jeanettrius
Moore he would get half her stimulus check one way or another.
The first time Halfacre came around asking for the $1,400 Covid relief check, Moore refused
him.
Instead, she offered Halfacre $450, which he declined.
He wanted his rightful "cut."
Moore told Halfacre that he made no contributions to their daughter's living expenses and thus
didn't deserve any of her money.
Nevertheless, Halfacre swore he'd be back.
And next time, he wouldn't leave without the money.
According to those who knew Halfacre, he needed the money.
Halfacre hadn't worked in a while.
As a charged criminal, Halfacre lived a rough life.
Three years prior, he was released from police custody in a plea deal after being accused
of putting five rounds into someone on the Northwest side of Indianapolis.
His reported laziness didn't help much either.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Halfacre showed up at Moore's house on a Saturday evening.
Moore was sitting on a curb when Halfacre pulled up, glared at her, left for a few minutes,
then came back.
This time, Halfacre waltzed into Moore's home.
Halfacre started rooting through Moore's purse when he got into the house.
Four others watched the scene unfold, one of those people being his daughter.
The other individuals were Moore's 35-year-old cousin, Anthony Johnson, her mother Tomeeka
Brown, and Daquan Moore, Jeanettrius' 23-year-old brother, who stood up to Halfacre on behalf
of his sister.
In response, Halfacre pulled out a handgun and fired several rounds into each person
inside the house.
Halfacre left with his baby daughter and put the cops through a hostage situation before
finally surrendering to authorities.
8 - Disney Split In an interview with court reporters, Bradford
Lund—grandson of Walt Disney—said that if he inherited his father's ranch, he would
ride ATVs, go fishing, and horseback riding.
Lund's father, Bill Lund, was the real estate developer who helped Walt Disney find the
location for Disney World in the late 60s.
He was also married to Walt's adopted daughter Sharon.
When Sharon died in 1993 from breast cancer, she and Bill's estate and holdings were supposed
to be divided between her three children: Bradford, Michelle, and Victoria when they
turned 35.
Victoria, their adopted sister, hit the 35-year-mark first.
Sadly, she passed away after receiving her share of the inheritance.
The money was put back in the trust to be divided between her younger siblings.
But there was a catch.
In her will, Sharon Lund-Disney left the majority of her family fortune to the care of three
trustees.
One of those trustees was her sister Diane Miller, and the other was her ex-husband.
As a stipulation, the trustees were supposed to grant the twins their $200 million dollar
halves if they deemed them responsible enough to handle such vast amounts of money.
Bradford Lund was 23 when his mother died and has been fighting for his share of the
inheritance for over 15 years.
Amongst the Disney stock and royalties was the ranch in Teton.
After Diane died in 2013, the trustees decided to sell the ranch to make a quick profit.
Lund found out and took legal action.
However, the judge deemed him unfit to manage $200 million.
His reasoning?
Lund has Down syndrome, which a DNA test proved he did not have.
Attorney's have called probate court "the unhappiest place on earth," but that's where
the Disney grandchildren will stay if they ever want to get their hands on Walt's money.
7 - Alzheimer’s Play Donna Marino's scheme was in trouble.
She and her husband, John Marino, were parked outside their bank, and all he wanted to do
was go inside.
But Donna couldn't allow that.
So, she told John that the last time he went inside the bank, he made a big scene due to
his Alzheimer's, embarrassing himself in front of dozens of people.
John believed Donna and waited out in the car while she met with the tellers.
The only problem is that John doesn't have Alzheimer's, and Donna didn't want John to
see the bank documents.
If he had, John would have seen that his wife was taking money out of his pension and transferring
the money to her side of the family.
Since 1999, Donna had been using John's retirement money to help her brother pay his rent, siphon
money to her mother's account, and finance other financial handouts.
Donna told her husband—who was in his 60s—that he had Alzheimer's and shouldn’t be trusted
with money management to get him off her scent.
While John may have succumbed to Donna's scam, their daughter Elena smelled something strange
coming from the family bank account, especially after John came to her with his concerns.
In 2020, John and Elena reported Donna to the police, forcing their mother and wife
to turn herself in.
Overall, investigators estimate Donna took $600,000 from her husband, money that’s
long, long gone.
6 - Faked Status It took 19-year-old Alan Hruby stealing his
grandma's credit for his parents to finally cut him off financially.
Alan got caught spending thousands of dollars on expensive trips and shopping sprees—all
on grandma's dollar.
Not only was he cut off, but Alan was charged with theft.
One day, he approached his mother and demanded access to the family bank account, which was
quite large.
John Hruby and his wife Katherine built their small fortune over the years spent in the
publishing business.
They're not mega-wealthy by any means, but rich enough to send their son Alan to Oklahoma
University.
Alan bragged about being rich while in college.
He'd wear Rolexes and carry around Louis Vuitton bags for added effect.
However, the luxury items weren’t purchased with his parents' consent.
Now, Alan's riches were gone, and he intended to get them back.
That's why—when he confronted his mother Katherine—he did so with his father's pistol.
When Katherine refused, Alan opened fire.
Alan's 17-year-old sister, Katherine, heard the shots and rushed inside.
Sadly, Alan shot her too.
He waited for his father to get home and took his life last.
Alan partied at the Ritz Carlton in the aftermath.
Not long after his party ended, investigators interviewed Alan, and the teenager confessed
to all three murders.
In court, Alan pled guilty.
According to District Attorney Jason Hicks, Alan's grandparents pleaded with the courts
for a life sentence.
Otherwise, Alan would have certainly been sentenced to death under Oklahoma state law.
5 - Moore Family The Moore family has been rich generations,
epitomizing the old-money society in England.
But recently, three members of the Moore family have been locked into a war over their late
mother's 40 million pound estate.
That estate includes a 2.2 million pound mansion on the Isle of Man and a trust set up by their
grandfather long before they were born.
Christian Velarde, the oldest, his sister Rebecca, and their younger brother Matthew
can't agree on what to do with the money.
Christian argues that the inheritance should be split between him and Rebecca.
Whereas Rebecca supports the judge's original ruling: that the 40 million pound fortune
should be split three ways.
Christian's argument for excluding Matthew is based on his divorce.
In 1997, their mother removed Matthew from the will after the divorce.
However, the most recent version of the will appeared to have added him back.
Christian wants to prevent Matthew's ex-wife from inheriting any of his mother's assets.
In the coming years, Christian plans on challenging the high court's ruling, though his legal
prospects look grim.
4 - Marshall Inheritance The $474 Million inheritance battle between
Anna Nicole Smith and Pierce Marshall lasted nearly two decades.
By the time it was over, Judge Mike Wood, who'd presided over the case from the beginning,
wanted out.
Nicole-Smith and Pierce went back and forth for years.
Different courts issued various rulings about who's entitled to the money, but Nicole-Smith
and Pierce died before they made any decisions.
To catch you up on the story, Nicole-Smith met her husband, Howard Marshall, in 1994.
She was 26 and performing at a gentlemen's club when she met the 89-year-old Marshall.
According to her, they "fell in love" and were married shortly after.
However, Marshall died the very next year without including Nicole-Smith in his will.
Why does that matter?
Marshall was an oil tycoon in Texas with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank.
Then there was Howard III, who'd been disinherited from the will.
He and Anna believed they were entitled to old-man-Howard's money, so they teamed up.
In the other corner was the eldest son, Pierce, who vowed never to let Anna touch a single
dime of his father's money.
At first, Anna got what she wanted, a $474 Million reward from a Texas court.
Then, an appeal stripped the fortune away, and up the court ladder, it climbed.
In a bizarre turn of events, both Anna and Pierce died within a year of each other, leaving
their close relatives to continue the fight for them.
That was until Judge Wood recused the court from their case in January 2017, officially
bowing out of the 20-plus-year legal battle.
Legend has it that the fight continues to this day.
3 - The Tiger Queen Publishing tycoon Dominic De Sousa was only
56 when he died performing a rendition of Hey Jude at a BBC award ceremony in 2015.
De Sousa didn't have any children or a known spouse, so his 600,000 Pound fortune went
to his sister, Maria De Sousa.
However, a Russian woman named Svetlana Brezhneva claimed that she was De Sousa's wife in a
British high court.
Brezhneva's work was in Dubai.
When Arab royals abandon their big cats, the tigers end up in her care.
According to Brezhneva, she had met De Sousa in 1994 and got married in 2014.
According to her, she was by his side for most of his life, even though his entire family
had no idea who she was.
De Sousa denied there was a marriage and claimed that a wedding certificate from Kislovodsk
in Russia in 2014 was forged.
Brezhneva, nicknamed The Tiger Queen, showed up to a court in Dubai with a hand-written
will and called it De Sousa's final requests.
However, the will failed to mention she was his wife, a detail the courts picked up on
pretty quickly.
They threw her case out, only to pick it back up in 2019.
2 - Don Juan of Kishu "The reason I make money is to date attractive
women" is the opening line to The Don Juan of Kishu.
The book is an autobiography written by a Japanese businessman named Kosuke Nozaki,
who embodies the legendary character of Don Juan, focusing on his escapades with women.
The book was, of course, a massive success.
Nozaki became a minor celebrity in Japan, similar to Hugh Hefner in the United States.
And like Hefner, he attracted many young women searching for someone to spoil them.
All except for Saki Sudo.
According to some speculators, she wanted much more than just a piece of the high life,
especially after Sudo was arrested in April 2021.
She married Nozaki in 2018, despite many warning the Don that the former 22-year old Japanese
adult film star was a gold digger.
The haters cited times when Sudo went on expensive shopping sprees as evidence of her true intentions.
But the doubters' skeptical words had little effect on Nozaki.
In an interview, the 77-year old millionaire said he felt sorry for the "99%" of people
who judged his marriage to Sudo.
They didn't get to enjoy certain "perks" as Nozaki did.
Despite his age, he even claims that he doesn't need any help with those perks.
Despite the high optimism Nozaki had going into the marriage, things did not end well.
Just three months after their wedding, Nozaki was found dead on a living room couch.
After a toxicology report, investigators announced that Nozaki had died from an overdose.
Specifically, alcohol and strong narcotics.
Investigators searched the house and discovered traces of drugs, and, after looking through
Sudo's phone, text messages to and from a drug dealer.
Investigators also believe Sudo met with this dealer mere days before Nozaki died.
While this meeting can't be 100% proven, Sudo did some very suspicious things in the immediate
aftermath of her husband's death.
Just two months after Nozaki died, Sudo made herself the President of his real estate company.
Witnesses say she called a shareholder meeting to make the announcement while declaring she
would receive an annual salary of $1.5 million.
Sudo used her new position within her late husband's empire to send herself $300,000.
She paraded around in her new job for three years before authorities brought murder charges
against her.
1 - Inheritance Dating 88 transactions.
That's how many times Jordan Edwards, 17 at the time, used his then girlfriend's inheritance
money throughout 2018.
They first got together in January of 2018.
The relationship ended in November when Edward's girlfriend discovered that 700 pounds were
missing from her inheritance!
When his girlfriend confronted him, Edwards expressed shame and remorse, promising her
that he would pay back every cent.
Instead, Edwards continued stealing from his girlfriend's account.
By November, he had taken around 15,000 pounds of her inheritance.
She canceled debit cards, contacted banks, trying to figure out where all her money had
gone.
After further investigation, she and authorities traced the purchases back to Edwards, who
pleaded guilty to aggravated theft months later.
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