B.B. King’s family hires prominent lawyer in estate dispute

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FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 22, 2012, B.B. King performs at the 32nd annual B.B. King Homecoming, a concert on the grounds of an old cotton gin where he worked as a teenager in Indianola, Miss. Four of B.B. King’s daughters of are raising the possibility that a second will exists, and are again accusing the blues legend’s longtime business manager, LaVerne Toney, of stealing his wealth and endangering his health in the days before he died. Probate court documents filed Tuesday, June 9, 2015, in Las Vegas by a lawyer for Patty King, Karen Williams, Rita Washington and Barbara Winfree stop short of previous allegations that Toney and the another aide poisoned B.B. King. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — B.B. King family members are bringing in a prominent national lawyer to review the events surrounding the blues icon’s death and estate.

FILE – In this file photo taken Aug. 22, 2012, B.B. King performs at the 32nd annual B.B. King Homecoming, a concert on the grounds of an old cotton gin where he worked as a teenager in Indianola, Miss. Four of B.B. King’s daughters of are raising the possibility that a second will exists, and are again accusing the blues legend’s longtime business manager, LaVerne Toney, of stealing his wealth and endangering his health in the days before he died. Probate court documents filed Tuesday, June 9, 2015, in Las Vegas by a lawyer for Patty King, Karen Williams, Rita Washington and Barbara Winfree stop short of previous allegations that Toney and the another aide poisoned B.B. King. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Attorney Benjamin Crump told The Associated Press on Friday that he’s been hired to take an independent look at King’s May 14 death at age 89 and the handling of King’s finances by his longtime business agent, LaVerne Toney.

Four of King’s adult daughters accuse Toney, his designated executor, of looting King’s accounts and endangering his health in his dying days.

A lawyer representing Toney and the estate says the allegations aren’t true.

Crump represented the family of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot by a neighborhood-watch organizer in 2012, and the family of Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — B.B. King family members are bringing in a prominent national lawyer to review the events surrounding the blues icon’s death and estate.

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