Free Celebrity Wills

Download this free copy of the Petition for Letters of Administration and order granting nonintervention in the estate of Kurt Cobain (1967-1994).

• 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 strength of their album Nevermind and the single "Smells Like Teen Spirit". This opened the door for alternative rock to become a dominant force in American music.
• Cobain was uncomfortable with the level of success and the media focus on him and his personal life. These factors no doubt played a huge part in his struggles with drug addiction.
• On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead in his home in Seattle, after committing suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head.

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986).

• Lafayette Ron 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.
• Hubbard was an officer in the Navy during WWII, where he briefly commanded two ships but was removed from command both times. The last few months of his active service were spent in a hospital, being treated for a variety of complaints.
• In the 1970s Hubbard and his followers tried unsuccessfully to take over the town of Clearwater, Florida. In 1978 he was convicted of fraud in France.
• That same year, certain high-ranking Scientologists were indicted on numerous charges for their part in a program of systematic espionage against the U.S. Government.

Biographical information found on Wikipedia.

Download a copy of the last will and testament of French King Louis XVI (1754-1793).

• 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 extravagant queen Marie Antoinette and the aristocracy, who blocked reforms intended to end widespread poverty.
• Louis XVI and his wife were executed on the guillotine.

Download and enjoy a free copy of the Last Will of Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

• Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is universally considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. Although he never won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he was nominated 5 times.
• Tolstoy is most widely known for his works War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
• Besides novels and novellas, he also wrote plays and essays.
• His later Christian works and his philosophy of non-violent resistance greatly influenced such major world figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

Biographical information courtesy of Wikipedia.org.

Download this free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Leona Helmsley (1920-2007).

• Leona, often called the 'Queen of Mean', knew the meaning of upward mobility. She was the daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants who married well - several times. She also worked her way up to the level of vice-president in a New York real estate brokerage firm.
• In 1968 she met multi-millionaire entrepreneur Harry Helmsley and in 1970 she joined one of his brokerages. In 1972 Harry divorced his wife and married Leona, and she set about running his expanding hotel empire.
• Leona faced legal problems throughout her professional life, ultimately being convicted of income tax evasion in 1989 for which she served 18 months in prison. She was quoted as having said, "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
• In her Will, she left a $12 million trust fund to her Maltese dog. This was later reduced by the Courts to $2 million.

This is a copy of the Last Will of the maestro Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

• Leonardo was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, musician, scientist, mathematician, inventor, botanist, anatomist, and cartographer. He is considered the archetypal Renaissance man, and is perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have existed. A brilliant artist and inventor, his use of logic and empirical methods were unusual for his time.
• To the average person, Leonardo has always been known primarily as a painter. His most famous works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most reproduced and most parodied paintings of all time. His drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also an instantly recognizable cultural icon, having been reproduced on everything from the Euro to T-shirts.
• In addition to the brilliance of his artistic endeavours, Leonardo's drawings show that he conceptualized prototypes for the helicopter, the tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull, and a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. He also invented an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, and these devices were manufactured during his lifetime.
• As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

Source: Wikipedia.org

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Liberace.

• Wladziu Valentino Liberace (1919-1987) was known to the world by his last name and to his friends as Lee.
• Liberace was a gifted classical pianist who began playing at the age of 4 and later became incredibly popular around the world through his flamboyant style of showmanship.
• From the 1950s to the 1970s (when Elvis Presley and The Beatles were at the height of their popularity), he was the highest paid entertainer in the world.
• Liberace was recognized during his career with two Emmys, six gold albums, and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Liberace died in 1987 at age 68 from pneumonia resulting from HIV/AIDS. He never came out as gay during his lifetime and his press agent stated the cause of death to be a combination of pernicious anemia, emphysema, and heart disease.

Download a copy of the Last Will and Testament of Linda McCartney (1941-1998).

• Linda McCartney 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 McCartney of The Beatles on March 12 1969, and was a member of Wings. The McCartneys had four children together: Heather Louise (from her previous marriage, whom Paul McCartney adopted in 1969), Mary Anna, Stella Nina, and James Louis.
• Linda became Lady McCartney when her husband Paul was knighted in 1997.
• McCartney wrote several vegetarian cookbooks, became a business entrepreneur (starting the Linda McCartney Foods company) and was a professional photographer, publishing Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era.
• Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995 and died at the age of 56 at the McCartneys' family ranch in Tucson, Arizona.

Biographical material taken from Wikipedia.com.

Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of Lizzie Andrew Borden (1860-1927).

• A native of Fall River, Massachusetts, 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 the crime was a respectable church-going spinster who taught Sunday school.
• After Lizzie was found not guilty by a jury of locals in spite of a wealth of circumstantial evidence against her, she was socially ostracized by the community. She never married and lived a reclusive life until her death.

Download a free copy of the Last Testament of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), the document known as the Heiligenstadt Testament. This document was translated into English from the original German.

• Beethoven was a German composer and pianist considered to be the most crucial figure in the transition period between the Classical and Romantic eras of Western classical music. He remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.
• In 1792 Beethoven settled in Vienna to study with Joseph Haydn, and he quickly gained a reputation as a virtuoso. Beethoven had planned to study with Mozart, but Mozart had died the year before.
• By 1802, Beethoven had written 32 piano sonatas, 2 symphonies, 18 string quartets, and 3 piano concertos. Sadly though, it is around this time that his hearing began to deteriorate significantly. He continued to compose, conduct, and perform, even after becoming completely deaf. His 9th Symphony, his final 7 piano sonatas and a set of string quartets were completed after he had lost his hearing.
• Although his personal life was troubled and he never married, he became the world's most renowned composer. He suffered from ill health for almost 20 years before his death, which led him to contemplate suicide. There are several theories as to what caused his death, but the most likely cause seems to be lead poisoning from treatments suggested by his doctor. His funeral was said to have been attended by more than 10,000 people.