This is the biggest will contest no one has ever heard of, at least on this side of the Pacific. Nina Wang was the richest woman in Asia when she died in Hong Kong in 2007 with an estate worth $4.2 billion. The day after her funeral it was revealed there were two conflicting wills in play. One gave virtually all of her estate to charity and the other named her personal feng shui consultant Tony Chan as the sole beneficiary. After a lengthy and sensational court battle over her estate, the court ruled in 2010 that, while the court accepted Chan’s claim that he and Wang had been secret lovers, the will he presented bore a forged signature. The court upheld the other will, awarding Wang’s entire estate to the Chinachem Charitable Foundation. Chan was eventually arrested and in 2013 sentenced to 12 years in prison.           

 

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