Legal battles among Martin Luther King Jr's children drag on, this time over who gets mom and dad's unpublished correspondence. Yesterday, a judge ordered youngest daughter Bernice, the administrator of Coretta Scott King's estate, to bring to court letters and photos that sit at the heart of a disputed $1.4 million book deal signed by her brother, Dexter, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The correspondence would be used in an autobiography of Scott King that Bernice maintains her mother did not want. Lawyers for Dexter, the administrator of MLK's estate, point to a 1995 contract signed by Scott King that gave the corporation rights to “autobiographies relating to the life of any of the heirs.” Bernice and brother MLK III say their mother did not like preliminary chapters written by the autobiographer before her death.
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