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Lohan Appears Jail-Bound, While Hilton Plays 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card

(Sept. 20) -- They're (sometimes) blond, they're famous and they're often in trouble with the law. The oddly intersecting lives of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan continued to make headlines over the past few days as both women faced new legal consequences for alleged continued violations of U.S. drug laws. Surge Desk...

Kin of Heiress Lose Court Battle Over Guardian

(Sept. 10) -- A judge in Manhattan, N.Y., has denied an independent guardian request filed by relatives of 104-year-old heiress Huguette Clark, saying that their petition is based on hearsay. The ruling handed down in New York County Supreme Court by Judge Laura Visitacion-Lewis on Thursday means that Clark's affairs will...

Reclusive Heiress Does Have Will, Lawyer Says

(Sept. 2) -- Huguette Clark, the reclusive heiress to a fortune estimated at $500 million, does have a will after all, a spokesman for her attorney says. Whether she had a will and who will inherit her staggering wealth have been major questions in the saga of the 104-year-old woman who hasn't been seen in public for more...

Finances of 104-Year-Old Heiress at Center of Probe

NEW YORK (Aug. 26) -- A 104-year-old heiress to a Montana copper mining fortune -- now living in a New York hospital room -- is at the center of a criminal investigation into her fortune and welfare, two people familiar with the probe told The Associated Press. The Manhattan district attorney's office is looking into how...

Background on heiress

An heir presumptive or heiress presumptive is the person provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced (in legal terms, is "subject to divestiture") by the birth of an heir or heiress apparent or of a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question.

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