While the value of King’s estate is the subject of great contention, observers say it hardly is a case like Michael Jackson’s estate, which has gone up in value roughly $1 billion since the enigmatic singer’s death. But the kids have assembled teams of lawyers to fight the estate’s guardians. According to the trustee’s own legal filings in Nevada, King’s estate also is far smaller than the children allege: $5 million and change spread across a few Wells Fargo bank accounts. But King’s longtime business manager, LaVerne Toney, who is now the legal trustee of King’s estate, asserts that she merely is following a 2014 trust, which names the children but doesn’t provide for them with specific monetary gifts. Many of the kids point to a 2007 will and trust that they claim grant them generous allowances. Either way, King claimed 15 kids as his own - never disputing his paternity - and of the 11 who survive, many now are fighting with King’s appointed trustee over his estate, a fortune that family members tell THR could be worth between $30 million and $40 million when royalties, asset sales and rights are taken into account. In 2015, Sawyer told The Guardian that he had given King the option to remove the reference and that King declined. If that family history weren’t complex enough, King’s authorized biographer Charles Sawyer wrote in his book, The Arrival of BB King, that doctors found the musician’s sperm count too low to conceive children. While neither of King’s two marriages resulted in children, he managed to leave behind a vast family: 15 kids from 15 women. The year since then has been decidedly less peaceful.
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