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When China's most famous beverage billionaire died, his daughter thought the empire was hers. Then three strangers showed up with HSBC account numbers and a $2.1 billion claim.

When Alberto Safra walked out of his family's bank to build a rival, his father was heartbroken — and his family was mobilizing. What followed was a multinational legal war over billions, a dying patriarch's disputed will, and a group chat nobody was allowed into.

Sumner Redstone spent decades trying to keep his daughter away from his media empire. She got it anyway — and then sold every last piece of it for $8 billion. Along the way: a son bought out for $250 million, a companion evicted from a mansion, a CBS CEO fired in disgrace, and Donald Trump walking off with $16 million on his way to the White House.

Jay Pritzker built a $15 billion hotel empire and held 13 cousins together through sheer force of will. The moment he died, the clock started. Then an 18-year-old actress decided she was done being quiet.

The Kwok brothers built Asia's most powerful real estate dynasty — then tore it apart. One was kidnapped for $77 million. Another went to prison for bribing a government minister. A third claimed his family had him under house arrest.

H.L. Hunt was reportedly the richest man in America — and a bigamist running three separate families at the same time. Then his sons tried to corner the entire global silver market and lost $5 billion in a single day.

The family that built one of the world's most recognizable luxury brands spent decades tearing each other apart — in courtrooms, boardrooms, and finally, on a Milan street. The murder of Maurizio Gucci in 1995 was the final act of a dynasty that had been killing itself for years.

Liliane Bettencourt was the world's richest woman — and she was being drained of a billion dollars by her best friend. Her daughter went to war to stop it, and blew up French politics in the process.

The Bancrofts owned the Wall Street Journal for a century and held enough voting power to stop Rupert Murdoch cold. In the summer of 2007, they sold it to him for $5 billion and a promise he'd leave the newsroom alone.

When India's greatest industrialist died without a will in 2002, he left two sons and one empire. One brother became Asia's richest man. The other declared bankruptcy in a UK court. This is how it happened.

A Nevada commissioner has made a major ruling against Rupert Murdoch's attempt to shake up his family trust in a way that would secure his eldest son Lachlan's control over their media empire. This mo

A Nevada court filing by attorneys representing Cary McNair has brought to light serious allegations involving Janice McNair's personal attorney, Ed Deery, and her son, Cal McNair, a prominent figure