To Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin became much more than a music legend when the talk show host was preparing to play her idol in the 2021 biopic Respect. “You know, I didn’t realize how much of an ...

Thursday brought one of the most dramatic courtroom moments so far in Aretha Franklin’s long-running estate saga, as a judge heard 20 minutes of newly uncovered voicemails left by the Detroit star ...

There’s a reason why the level of respect for Aretha Franklin seemingly is endless. Even though this year marks half a decade since the Queen of Soul died, her story — meaning different things to ...

Three of Franklin's four sons had been in a dispute regarding the handwritten will since her death in 2018. Four months after a jury said that Aretha Franklin's 2014 handwritten will found between ...

John Morris Russell, who will conduct both shows, worked with producer and arranger Scott Coulter on the Respect program, which features Tamika Lawrence, CoCo Smith, and Blaine Krauss singing ...

Nearly five years after the death of Aretha Franklin, her estate is finally on the cusp of getting resolved. A jury trial is set to begin Monday in Oakland County Probate Court, likely bringing a ...

When Aretha Franklin sought a second metro Detroit home as a creative sanctuary and hub for her famously lavish parties, she found the ideal spot. In March 1994, she purchased the Rose Estate, a ...

The longstanding disagreement over how to divide up Aretha Franklin’s estate has finally been settled. On Tuesday, a Michigan jury ruled that a four-page handwritten note from 2014 that the singer ...

As the granddaughter of gospel icon Aretha Franklin, music runs in Grace Franklin's family. And in Sunday's season premiere of "American Idol," Grace, then 15, auditioned for the singing competition ...

The FBI was really not putting RESPECT on Aretha’s name! According to a 270-page document, the Federal Bureau of Investigation spent years monitoring the ‘Queen of Soul’ Aretha Franklin, “trying to ...