On Tuesday, Prince's only full sibling, sister Tyka Nelson, told a Minnesota court that as far as she knows, Prince never made a will. “I do not know of the existence of a will and have no reason to believe that the decedent executed testamentary documents in any form,” she said in court documents. She asked a Carver County probate court in Minneapolis to appoint a special executor to oversee the settlement of Prince's affairs, and place a corporate trust company, Bremer Trust, to act as emergency administrator in the meantime.
Nelson said she does not know how much money Prince had, only that he left "substantial assets." The rock legend owned $27 million worth of property in and around Minneapolis, according to public records, and he earned hundreds of millions from touring and selling records over his career. Still, The Associated Press suggests that Prince did not have all that much cash on hand.
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