Have you ever wondered who the rich and famous left their fortunes to when they died? Now you can find out! Download a copy of the last will & testament of your favorite famous dead person.
Petition for Letters of Administration of Estate of Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)
Download this free file to read the Petition for Letters of Administration and an order granting nonintervention in the estate of Kurt Cobain. Cobain was the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for Nirvana, who went from being a grunge band with a cult following to mainstream success on the st...
Will of Alfred Nobel (1833-1896)
Download this free file to read the Last Will & Testament of Alfred Nobel. Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great power in northern Europe. Nobel invented dynamite in 1866. In...
Will of Anna Nicole Smith (1967-2007)
Download this free file to read the Last Will and Testament of Anna Nicole Smith (born Vickie Lynn Marshall). Anna Nicole was many things during her brief life - model, Playboy Playmate, reality TV celebrity and widow of oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall. Her death in February 2007 from an ac...
Last Will & Testament of George Herman Ruth (aka Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat), one of American professional baseball's most popular figures. Ruth originally broke into the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox as a starting pitcher, but after he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, he conv...
Will of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The last will and testament of Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, inventor, philosopher, author, soldier, scientist and political activist. He is credited, among other things, with inventing the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove. He established the first public library and the ...
Will of Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
Download this free file to read the Last Will & Testament of (John) Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933). Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States (from 1923 to 29). Coolidge became president after the death in office of Warren G. Harding. Coolidge died in 1933 from a heart attack as he finis...
Will of Clark Gable (1901-1960)
Download the Last Will of William Clark Gable, an American screen legend, whose nickname was "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time. Gable's most famous role was that of Rhett Butler in the 1939 Ci...
Will of David Packard (1912-1996)
Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of David Packard. Packard, an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur, was a co-founder of the computer giant, Hewlett-Packard. The majority of his holdings were donated to the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, which provides grants to...
Will of Doris Duke (1912-1993)
Download a copy of the Last Will and Testament of Doris Duke, American heiress, horticulturalist, art collector and philanthropist. When her father died when Doris was just 12 years old, she inherited a fortune estimated at about $100 million. At the age of 14, she took her mother to court and su...
Will of Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
Download the Last Will and Testament of Elvis Aaron Presley, the King of Rock and Roll. Elvis dominated the popular music charts for decades, until the coming of the Beatles in the 1960s. His unique blend of blues, country and folk combined with his smooth sexy delivery and pelvic gyrations made ...
Will of Epicurus (341 BC-270 BC)
Download this free file to read the Will of Epicurus. Epicurus founded one of the major philosophies of ancient Greece, helping to lay the intellectual foundations for modern science and for secular individualism. Many aspects of his thought are still highly relevant some twenty-three centuries a...
Will of Frank Sinatra (1915-1998)
Download a copy of the Last Will and Testament of Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra. Sinatra (whose nicknames include 'Old Blue Eyes' and 'the Chairman of the Board') was an American singer and actor who began his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. During the 1940s he...
Will of George Washington (1732-1799)
Download this free file to read the Last Will & Testament of George Washington. George Washington was an American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775-83) and first president of the United States (1789-97). Dissatisfied with the Articles of Confed...
Will of Harry Helmsley (1909-1997)
Download this free copy of the Will of New York billionaire Harry Helmsley. In his will, Harry Helmsley leaves an estate estimated at $1.7 billion. A few of his vast holdings included the Empire State Building, and posh hotels in New York. Harry Helmsley died of pneumonia in 1997 at a hospit...
Will of Henry Fonda (1905-1982)
Download this free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Henry Fonda. Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting. Fonda made...
Will of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994)
Download this free copy of the last will and testament of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. The Kenned...
Will of Janis Joplin (1943-1970)
Download this free copy of the Last Will & Testament of Janis Joplin. Janis Joplin was an American blues rock singer and an enduring icon of the '60's youth movement. Her incendiary stage performances, problems with drug and alcohol abuse, and her tumultuous love life formed the basis for the mov...
Will of Jerry Garcia (1942-1995)
Download a copy of the Last Will and Testament of Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia. Jerry Garcia was an American musician best known as one of the original founders of The Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group. Garcia...
Will of Jim Morrison (1943-1971)
Download this free copy of the Last Will & Testament of Jim Morrison (full name James Douglas Morrison). Morrison was an American rock songwriter and lead singer for The Doors (Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, John Densmore). His deep baritone voice, poetic lyrics and exotic demeanor helped make the...
Will of Joe Dimaggio (1914-1999)
Download this free copy of the Last Will & Testament of Joe Dimaggio. Joseph Paul DiMaggio was better known as Joltin' Joe, or the Yankee Clipper. DiMaggio, an outstanding hitter and fielder, was one of the best all-round players in American baseball history, and was married to Marilyn Monroe for...
Will of John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960-1999)
Download a free copy of the Last Will & Testament of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. John Kenedy Jr. was an American publisher and public figure, son of assassinated US President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline. John was a member of an American family that, to many people, represented "Americ...
Will of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)
Download this free file to read the Last Will & Testament of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Sr. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (familiarly known as "JFK") served as the 35th president of the United States. He was the first Roman Catholic to be elected president. Educated at Harvard, Kennedy served with distinc...
Will of John Lennon (1940-1980)
Download a copy of the Last Will and Testament of John Winston Ono Lennon. John Lennon was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. With Paul McCartney, Lennon formed one of the most influentia...
Will of L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986)
Download this free file to read the Last Will & Testament of Lafayette Ronald (L. Ron) Hubbard. Hubbard was a science fiction writer who introduced his ideas to the general public in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950), and spawned the birth of the Church of Scientology....
Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Wladziu Valentino Liberace, known to the world by his last name and to his friends as Lee. Liberace was a gifted classical pianist who became incredibly popular around the world through his flamboyant style of showmanship. During the 1950sā...
Will of Linda McCartney (1941-1998)
Download a copy of the Last Will and Testament of Linda McCartney. Linda was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. She was born Linda Louise Eastman, to Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman, heiress to the Lindner Department Store fortune. She married Paul McCar...
Will of Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)
Download this free file to read the Last Will & Testament of Lizzie Andrew Borden. A native of Fall River, MA, Lizzie Borden was suspected of murdering her father and stepmother. Her trial was one of the most sensational in US history, due in large part to the fact that the person charged with th...
Download this free file to read the last will and testament of Louis XVI. Louis XVI was King of France from 1774 to 1792. Louis' reign ended in the face of the French Revolution. He tried to redress the social injustices that had made the monarchy hated, but came to be influenced by his extravaga...
Will of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)
Download this free copy of the will of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe, an American actress, singer and model, was born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker. After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in ...
Will of Michael Jackson (1958-2009)
Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Michael Jackson. Michael Joseph Jackson was an American musician, dancer, and entertainer with enormous international impact as a pop culture icon. Known worldwide as the King of Pop, he is the most commercial successful entertainer of all ti...
Will of Myles Standish (1584-1656)
Download this free file to read the Last Will & Testament of Captain Myles (or Miles) Standish. According to Wikipedia.com, Myles Standish was an English born military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for the Plymouth colony. After arriving at Plymouth on the Mayflower, he worked...
Will of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Download this free copy of the last will and testament of Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I). Napoleon, French emperor and military genius, established his reputation during the Revolutionary wars in northern Italy. His marriage in 1796 to Josephine de Beauharnais helped him to political power. In 1...
Will of Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
Download this free copy of the will of Pope John Paul II. Beloved by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and the first ever from a Slavic country. Born Karol Jozef Wojtyla, John Paul II was pope during a period in which the Catholic Church's...
Will of Princess Diana (1961-1997)
Download a free copy of the last will and testament of Diana, Princess of Wales. Princess Diana, born Diana Frances Spencer, was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. They were wed in a fairytale wedding in July of 1981. Their sons, Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to...
Will of Richard Nixon (1913-1994)
Download a free copy of the last will and testament of Richard Milhous Nixon. Richard was the 37th President of the United States from 1969ā1974 and was also the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953ā1961), and the first born in the 20th century. Nixon was the only President to resig...
Download this free copy of the last will and testament of Rob Roy. Rob Roy is the name by which history remembers legendary Scottish Highland clan chief Robert MacGregor. He was also known as Red Robert, because of his red beard. Outlawed for debts incurred in cattle dealing, he fled to the h...
Will of Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Download this free copy of the Last Will of Robert (Rabbie or Robbie) Burns. Scotland's favourite son, Robbie Burns (also known as the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is...
Will of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Download this free file to read the Last Will & Testament of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson was a British man of letters and one of the outstanding literary figures of the 18th century. Samuel Johnson produced the first great English dictionary, the Dictionary of the English Language, in 1755. ...
Will of Shoeless Joe Jackson (1888-1951)
Download this free copy of the Last Will of Joseph Jefferson ("Shoeless Joe") Jackson. Shoeless Joe Jackson was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball in the early part of the 20th century. He is remembered for his performance on the field and for his association with the Bl...
Will of T. H. Huxley (1825-1895)
Download this free file to read the Last Will & Testament of Thomas Henry Huxley. Thomas Huxley was an English biologist, educator, proponent of science, and advocate of (and coiner of the term) agnosticism. Huxley's very public support of Charles Darwin's evolutionary naturalism earned him the n...
Will of Walt Disney (1901-1966)
Download this free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Walt Disney. Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, showman, entrepreneur and philanthropist, as well as an innovator in animation and theme par desig...
Will of William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Download this free file to read the Last Will & Testament of Willliam Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often referred to as England's national poet ...