Wacky Wills

Wacky Wednesday: Wills That Make You Go “Hmmm…” – Sandra West

February 1, 2012

NB: This post is part of a series highlighting wills that contain some interesting, and sometimes bizarre, bequests and stipulations. You can see all these posts here. It has been said that Americans have love affairs with cars, but but one person took that love to an extreme. Sandra Illene West was a Texas oil [...]

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Wacky Wednesday: Wills That Make You Go “Hmmm…” – Carlotta Liebenstein

October 26, 2011

NB: This post is part of a series highlighting wills that contain some interesting, and sometimes bizarre, bequests and stipulations. You can see all these posts here. Leona Helmsley left her dog, Trouble, $12 million in trust, but that amount seems paltry considering the amount Austrian Countess Carlotta Liebenstein left her dog. When she died [...]

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Wacky Wednesday: Wills That Make You Go “Hmmm…” – Jeremy Betham

April 6, 2011

NB: This post is part of a series highlighting wills that contain some interesting, and sometimes bizarre, bequests and stipulations. You can see all these posts here. Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher who died in 1832, included a very bizarre stipulation in his will. He gave his body to his friend, Dr. Thomas Southwood Smith, [...]

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Wacky Wednesday: Wills That Make
You Go “Hmmm…” – TM Zink

September 8, 2010

NB: This post is part of a series highlighting wills that contain some interesting, and sometimes bizarre, bequests and stipulations. You can see all these posts here. TM Zink was a lawyer who noted an “intense hatred of women” in his will. Evidently this was not based on an personal differences he had with them, [...]

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Wacky Wednesday: Wills That Make You Go “Hmmm…” – Charles Millar

June 2, 2010
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Wacky Wednesday: Wills That Make You Go “Hmmm…” – Luis Carlos de Noronha Cabral da Camara

April 21, 2010

NB: This post is part of a series highlighting wills that contain some interesting, and sometimes bizarre, bequests and stipulations. You can see all these posts here. If you had no family and few friends, how would you want your assets distributed when you die? Would you leave your estate to charity? Would you consider [...]

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