FIGHT OVER TOBACCO FORTUNE
Division of Millions TRIAL ON MURDER CHARGE RECALLED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received December 28, 5.5 p.m.) Winston-Salem (North, Carolina), December 27. Another division of the famous Reynolds tobacco fortune occurred to-day, when Libby Holman, the singer, whose marriage to Z. Smith Reynolds, the young heir of the estate, was cut short by his mysterious death in July, 1932, accepted for her infant son, Christopher, 7,000,000 dollars as his share of his father’s fortune. Christopher is receiving two million dollars less than his half-sister Ann.
The Reynolds settlement is especially interesting in view of the fact that Libby Holman was acquitted on a charge of murdering her husband, and fought a long legal battle, against the efforts of Reynolds’s former wife to secure the entire 25,000,000-dollar fortune for her daughter Ann.
Under the will of the tobacco magnate, R. J. Reynolds, father of Z. Smith Reynolds, the infant son of Mrs. Libby Holman Reynolds was an heir, but she herself (Z. 'Smith’s second wife) had no claim on the tobacc'o manufacturer s estate.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 11
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176FIGHT OVER TOBACCO FORTUNE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 11
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