A judge in Minnesota dismissed the claims for the estate, which is reportedly worth at least £227 million.
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A Minnesota judge tossed another 30 claims out of court recently after having ordered genetic testing to a handful of people. According to the USA Today report, John Nelson, Norrine Nelson, Sharon Nelson, Alfred Jackson, Omarr Baker and Tyka Nelson are all known to be Prince’s siblings or half-siblings, and will all likely split the estate so long as tests prove they are indeed related to him.
“We’re dealing with adults who voluntarily entered themselves into this process for the sole goal of obtaining a piece of Prince’s estate”, she said.
The results are in for most of Prince’s would-be heirs, who received word from the courts Friday on whether they qualified to receive part of the musician’s multimillion-dollar estate.
The “Purple Rain” icon – whose estate includes vast troves of unreleased material – died in April at his Paisley Park complex of a painkiller overdose at age 57 and left no will.
The two were identified as the daughter and granddaughter of Prince’s disputed half-brother Duane J. Nelson, who died in 2011.
The order did not address the remaining two half-siblings.
Judge Eide said that these allegations were credible enough to entitle Briana and Victoria, along with Tyka Nelson and the other surviving children of John L. Nelson, to undergo genetic testing.
Eide’s ruling Friday follows a hearing last month where more than 20 attorneys representing potential heirs to Prince’s estate showed up at the Carver County Courthouse to debate how Minnesota’s probate laws interact with laws for determining parentage.
That means that now at least 24 people who claimed to be a half-sibling through someone other than Prince’s father, or those claiming more distant family tree connections, are out.
The lawyer representing media organisations asking to be granted access, Leita Walker, argued that all filings from those who were looking to claim Prince as their father should be heard in public.
Among those excluded from potential heirship in the order are five unidentified people with shaky claims that Prince was their biological father.
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