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Celebrity.Estate Launches Interactive World Map of Famous Wills and Inheritance Cases From Caesar to 2026
The celebrity.estate time map following the House of Habsburg across Europe. Lines run from parent to child.
The celebrity.estate time map following the House of Saud. The map draws lines from parent to child.
The Rothschild fortune from the 1812 will to 2023, in dated steps from the celebrity.estate family page.
Celebrity.estate launches an archive of famous wills and inheritance cases on an animated world map, from Julius Caesar to the Rothschilds, Getty and Samsung.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
— Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, 1789
SARASOTA, FL, UNITED STATES, November 10, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Celebrity.estate has launched a public online archive of celebrity estates, famous wills, inheritance disputes and family fortunes from 40,000 BC to 2026. The archive places each case on an animated world map at the place and year it happened. Each case page cites its sources, with court records listed first.
The animated world map
The time map shows the cases on a world map. In play mode it runs from 40,000 BC to 2026 in 75 seconds. A time bar lets the user move to any year. A Families search draws a family across the map: one line from each parent's birthplace to each child's birthplace, and one from each member's birthplace to the place of death, in the year of death. Families on the map include the Habsburgs, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and the House of Saud. A gold line joins the Rothschild family's cases from Frankfurt in 1812 to Geneva in 2015. The map is at https://www.celebrity.estate/time-map
The 3D timeline
The 3D timeline sets the cases in a tunnel with 2026 at the front and older years further back. Gold rings mark laws that changed inheritance, from the Code of Hammurabi in 1754 BC to 2026. The timeline is at https://www.celebrity.estate/timeline-3d
Cases in the archive
The archive covers wills, murders, forgeries and tax disputes. Cases include:
In 44 BC Julius Caesar's will named Decimus Brutus, one of his assassins, as an heir in the second degree, according to Suetonius.
In 1616 William Shakespeare left his wife Anne his "second best bed".
Napoleon left 10,000 francs in a codicil to Cantillon, a soldier who had fired at the Duke of Wellington in Paris in 1818.
In 1893 a jury acquitted Lizzie Borden of the murders of her father and stepmother. She and her sister inherited his $300,000 estate.
In 1978 two men dug up Charlie Chaplin's coffin in Switzerland and demanded a ransom from his family. Police recovered it 11 weeks later.
The same year a Nevada jury found Howard Hughes's handwritten "Mormon will" a forgery.
Prince died in 2016 with no will. More than 45 people claimed to be his relatives. The estate and the IRS settled its value at $156.4 million.
Jeffrey Epstein signed his will in a Manhattan jail on 8 August 2019 and died two days later.
Maurizio Gucci was shot dead in Milan on 27 March 1995. In 1998 a Milan court sentenced his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani, to 29 years for ordering the killing. In February 2023 his daughters settled her claim on his estate for €3.9 million.
In 2021 the US Tax Court set the value of three disputed Michael Jackson estate assets at $111.5 million. The estate had argued for about $5.3 million.
In November 2025 O.J. Simpson's executor accepted Fred Goldman's claim at nearly $58 million plus interest. The case is pending.
Family fortunes
Family pages follow a fortune from one generation to the next.
The Rothschild will of 1812 gave the family bank to Mayer Amschel Rothschild's five sons alone and barred his daughters and their heirs from any share. In 2023 the family took Rothschild & Co private at a €3.7 billion valuation. The Rothschild family page is at https://www.celebrity.estate/family-rothschild
Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877 worth about $100 million and left most of it to his son William, who nearly doubled it by 1885.
In 1984 the Getty family trust sold its 40 percent stake in Getty Oil to Texaco for over $4 billion.
The heirs of Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee paid 12 trillion won in inheritance tax, the largest in Korean history, with the last instalment in April 2026.
About celebrity.estate
Celebrity.estate is an online archive of estate, will and inheritance cases. A 62-second video of the time map is on YouTube at https://youtu.be/qb-OpJjybM4
The archive is at https://www.celebrity.estate
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