Faith Evans Must Pay $12.5 Million to Notorious B.I.G.’s Ex
Rolling Stone • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Faith Evans lost a $12.5 million legal battle to the Voletta Wallace Revocable Trust, representing Notorious B.I.G.’s late mother’s estate, over funds tied to the rapper’s trust and intellectual property.
- Delaware Judge Kathaleen St. J. McCormick ruled that Evans must pay the full judgment to the trust, rejecting Evans’ request to limit the amount to under $50,000, and confirmed the trust’s membership in Notorious B.I.G., LLC.
- The dispute involves control over distributions from Notorious B.I.G., LLC, with Wayne Barrow, Biggie’s former manager and executor of the trust, managing the estate, while Biggie and Evans’ son CJ challenges Barrow’s executorship in separate Pennsylvania proceedings.
- The judge ruled that actions taken by Barrow in good faith as executor cannot be reversed by subsequent legal challenges, and ordered prejudgment interest on the awarded distributions.
- While this Delaware ruling affirms the trust’s rights to the funds, the ongoing Pennsylvania case regarding Barrow’s appointment as executor remains unresolved.
