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Prince estate to go to court in dispute over “confidential business agreements”
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 23 September 2016
The Prince estate’s executors and “various presumed heirs” will meet at a closed court hearing next week. According to court documents, the hearing has been ordered to resolve disputes over various “confidential business agreements”.
As previously reported, Prince died without making a will, leading to numerous people coming forward claiming a family link to the star. In July, the judge overseeing the case, Kevin Eide, rejected claims by 29 people – among them five people who claimed that Prince was their biological or adoptive father, and a woman who claimed to have married the singer.
Although Eide has previously said that he might allow cameras into the courtroom for some of the hearings considering the Prince estate, so far media access to this case has been limited. And this new hearing, scheduled for next Thursday, will be entirely off limits to both media and the general public. It’s therefore not clear which “presumed heirs” are still involved.
The estate is being managed by the Bremer Trust, and led on the family side by the musician’s sister Tyka Nelson. It’s possible that the “business agreements” in dispute relate to plans to open Prince’s Paisley Park complex as a museum. Or the appointment of the musician’s long-time attorney L Londell McMillan and one-time EMI executive Charles A Koppelman to manage the Prince catalogue and other assets.
We may or may not find out next week.
