The estate of Tupac Shakur has been divided into two parts. One part is in the hands of his sister and one part is managed by a trustee appointed by the court after her death. The executor and trustee are being sued for mismanaging funds, improperly spending millions on luxuries while neglecting to pay taxes or apply for grants that would have helped them maintain control over the trust fund.
Tupac’s sister has filed a lawsuit against the executor and trustee of her brother’s estate. The suit alleges that she was not provided with all records pertaining to Tupac including his death certificate, autopsy report, and will.
Tupac’s Sister Takes Legal Action and Sues Executor & Trustee is a news article that discusses the lawsuit filed by Tupac’s sister Sekyiwa Shakur. The lawsuit seeks to have her brother, Mopreme Shakur, removed as executor of Tupac’s estate.
Tupac’s only sister, Sekyiwa “Set” Shakur, has filed a petition in the Superior Court of the State of California. This case, which involves a fight over the obligations, control, money, and rights linked to the Shakur family’s estate, which includes most of Tupac’s songs and other prized assets, has already been verified by many media publications.
Set Shakur (a/k/a “Set”) and The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (“TASF”) have sued Tom Whalley, the family estate’s executor and Trustee, for allegedly violating his duties, including failure to provide “compliant” accountings required under the Trust, failure to provide Set and the Foundation with an inventory of estate assets, violating Afeni Shakur’s wishes, misappropriating estate assets, converting and withholding estate assets. When Tupac died in 1996, his mother, Afeni Shakur, was declared the estate’s beneficiary, and she worked relentlessly to get all of Tupac’s music rights and assets for the benefit of her family and to preserve Tupac’s legacy. When Afeni died in 2016, Whalley was listed as the estate’s beneficiary.
“Whalley has already earned more than $5.5 million that he has paid himself in the previous five years via Amaru,” according to the petition. [and] he has essentially embezzled millions of dollars for his personal gain, much above what would be required to retrain a property qualified third-party to execute such services.”
Set claims in the Petition that Whalley has refused to relinquish property that was inherited by their mother Afeni, including Tupac’s automobiles, jewels, RIAA certified gold plaques, Tupac’s artwork and sculptures, Tupac’s apparel, shoes, and accessories, and furniture seized from Tupac’s houses.
The TASF Foundation, which is purportedly another Trust beneficiary, is a defendant in the action because of the community service activities it does with cash from the Trust and Estate.
Set and the TASF Foundation have assembled an all-star team of lawyers, including L. Londell McMillan, who represented Prince, Michael Jackson, and Prodigy of Mobb Deep before their untimely deaths (and later represented their families), and Donald David, who previously represented Afeni Shakur in a number of legal cases, including her lawsuit against Death Row.
“Set and the Foundation deserve the care, accountings, property, monies, and trust that Afeni specifically demanded and left, as well as the respect Tupac’s legacy and family deserve,” McMillan said in a statement to The Source. That is a proven truth.”
Whalley was a “long time friend and confidant” of Tupac and his mother, according to Howard King, an attorney for the executor, who rejects the charges made by Set and TASF. “These legal claims are unsatisfactory and harmful to the beneficiaries of the trust,” King says. We are convinced that the Court will quickly determine that Tom has always operated in Amaru’s, the trust’s, and all beneficiaries’ best interests.”
According to the lawsuit, Whalley should be forced to “recompense” the estate in the sum of $4 million and produce a detailed explanation of his conduct as executor of the Shakur estate.
The Petition will be heard on March 21, 2022, and TheSource.com will keep you updated as more information becomes available. Attorney McMillan is also the proprietor of The Source’s parent firm, The NorthStar Source Group.
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