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Old 07-11-2008, 10:24 PM
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King children sue brother

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Two of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s children are suing their brother, accusing him of wrongfully taking money from their parents' estates.
Dexter King, left, Bernice King and Martin Luther King III attend a 2006 tribute for their late mother.





Bernice King and Martin Luther King III allege that Dexter King took "substantial funds" out of Coretta Scott King's estate and "wrongfully appropriated" money from their father's estate.
The suit, filed Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court, serves as a very public fissure in an iconic family that has always professed unity, particularly as questions have swirled around some of their financial dealings.
In a written statement Friday, Dexter King called the suit "inappropriate and false."
"I'm disappointed that our personal family disagreement, as it relates to the family business, has evolved into being handled in a public legal forum," he said.
"It is my hope that this inappropriate and false claim by my siblings will be swiftly resolved and we can go about the business of focusing on our parents' tremendous legacy."
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead garbage workers on a protest march.
King's wife, Coretta Scott King, also devoted her life to the civil rights movement, died in 2006.
Attorneys for Bernice King and Martin Luther King III would not say Friday how much money they are accusing Dexter King of taking from their mother's estate.








Bernice King is the administrator of that estate. Dexter King, the suit says, controls their father's estate, which is registered as a Georgia corporation.
All three children are shareholders in that corporation.
The lawsuit names Dexter King and the corporation as defendants. It alleges that last month, the defendants "converted substantial funds from the estate's financial account at Bank of America for their own use."
Harmon Caldwell, an Atlanta attorney representing the plaintiffs, said Dexter King is a signatory on the account, but "was not authorized to transfer the funds," and gave his sister "no notice that those funds were being transferred."
The suit says that as a result of the transfer, "plaintiffs have and will suffer financial loss."
The lawsuit lists Bernice King as a plaintiff both individually and as administrator of their mother's estate.
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Separately, the suit says Dexter King "has wrongfully appropriated assets belonging to the [estate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.] or its shareholders for his own benefit."
Caldwell said Dexter King has refused to say what has happened with some of the corporation's money.
"I can't tell you that he's gone out and used corporate assets for his own living expenses," the attorney said. "What I can tell you for certainty is that by not providing Martin and Bernice with information about how the corporation is using its assets, he is essentially using those assets, appropriating those assets for his own benefit."
The plaintiffs' attorneys would not estimate the size of either estate. But one, Jock Smith, noted that a collection of King's manuscripts and other items was sold in 2006 for a reported $32 million.
"I don't think it was a substantial corporation of any sort before that," Smith said.
Over the years, the family of the civil rights leader has zealously protected its financial interests, at times taking legal steps even against the media for showing some of King's most famous speeches.
In 2005, some news agencies reported on the King Center, a nonprofit, having put millions of dollars into a for-profit business run by Dexter King. The family rejected allegations of wrongdoing, and has generally pushed to keep financial matters private.
Smith said his clients made repeated efforts to reach out to their brother in recent weeks before deciding to take legal action.
Smith agreed with the suggestion that it was emotionally tough for the King children to file the suit.
"That would be the understatement of the year, Smith said
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Old 07-11-2008, 11:24 PM
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That just looks really bad!
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Old 07-12-2008, 08:35 AM
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I am so glad I'm a Darden. Less money, less problems!
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Old 07-12-2008, 04:52 PM
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Less money don't mean a hill of beans. Been there, done that and got a t-shirt to prove it. Death of a loved one brings out a side in some people that you don't want to see.

With that being said, wasn't Dexter the one running the King Center when the other siblings really didn't want anything to do with it? And I know him and Yolanda were arguing with Martin III and Bernice when the papers were being sold (I don't remember which side each person was on).
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Old 07-12-2008, 08:41 PM
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LMAO! Same for the Myers's and the Duncans!
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Old 07-24-2008, 08:49 AM
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i want to know if any of them have real jobs that pay for a lavish lifestyle. in addition, i have always wondered what financial assets they received from the king estate considering frater king had very little.
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Old 07-24-2008, 01:14 PM
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i want to know if any of them have real jobs that pay for a lavish lifestyle. in addition, i have always wondered what financial assets they received from the king estate considering frater king had very little.
The King estate owns all of the intellectual property of MLK, so if someone wants to say, do a documentary of the Civil Rights era and wanted to show more than a snippet of one of his speeches they would have to pay the estate. There was a thing in the news a while back about them suing one of the networks for running the I have a Dream speech.

I don't know what Dexter has been doing since he left the King Center. Matter of fact, I don't know what Martin II is doing for a paying gig either. He was head of the SCLC at one point. Bernice is an elder/minster at New Birth in Atlanta. She has also been a minster on staff at other, less well known churches in Atlanta.
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Old 07-28-2008, 07:55 AM
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wow.. this is sad
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Old 10-12-2008, 06:55 AM
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Don't really care for the Kings honestly.

Great men have passed in history, whoever gave a bleep about their children?
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