Brooke Astor & Anthony Marshall
New York socialite Brooke Astor inherited a fortune from her third husband (who?) and had accused her son from her first marriage, Anthony Marshall, of "waiting for the money." Before Astor died at age 105 in 2007, Marshall was accused of letting his mother live in squalor while helping himself to her fortune. The 89-year-old Marshall was convicted of several crimes related to his handling of her estate and spent several weeks in prison before being granted medical parole.
JOAN CRAWFORD & CHRISTINA CRAWFORD
After actress Joan Crawford died in 1977, her daughter, Christina, published a scathing memoir that said her mother was an abusive alcoholic. The 1981 film version (starring whom?) was not well received, and some said Christina wrote the book because she was angry that she and brother Christopher had been removed from her mother's will.
JOAN FONTAINE & OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
These actress sisters went decades without speaking, apparently because of an early rivalry for the attention of their actress mother. The two even battled for the Best Actress Oscar in 1942.
LARRY & JIMMY FLYNT
Jimmy sued Larry after his brother fired him from the family business – the Hustler empire. This was a few years after Larry had fired Jimmy's sons and then sued them to keep them from using the family name on an inferior pornographic product.
LIAM & NOEL GALLAGHER
This sibling rivalry came to a head when Noel quit their popular British band in spectacular fashion, posting on a message board that he couldn't work with his brother any longer and apologizing to fans who had tickets to upcoming shows.
THE GALLO FAMILY
Ernest and Julio, owners of a large California winery and distributor, sued their younger brother, Joseph, in the mid-1980s for selling cheese under his own name. Joseph lost and was forced to change the name of his business (to what?).
THE GUCCI FAMILY
Multiple fights among this family eventually led to sale of nearly half of the family business to an outside investment firm owned by 12,000 Arab shareholders.
LEONA HELMSLEY & HER GRANDKIDS
When she died, the businesswoman left most of her money to a charitable trust, and she left a $12 million trust fund for her Maltese dog (its name?). A judge later reduced her dog's trust fund and awarded money (how much?) to the two grandchildren Helmsley had left out of her will.
WILLIAM 'BILL' KOCH VS. CHARLES & DAVID
The lesser-known Koch brother narrowly failed to win control of the family business in 1980 and later brought a series of unsuccessful lawsuits against Koch Industries and his two brothers.
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS & ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND
Mary was technically next in line behind Elizabeth for the English throne, but cousin Elizabeth didn't like that plan, so she had Mary locked away for years and then executed.
ROBERT & PETER MONDAVI
Robert Mondavi founded his now well-known winery after a fight with his brother, Peter, over the direction of winemaking at a family-owned venture in the 1960s. Robert's son recently quit the family business to start his own winery.
SHARON OSBOURNE & DON ARDEN
Don Arden was the manager for Black Sabbath when his daughter, Sharon, started to date vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. Black Sabbath fired Ozzy, Sharon took over as his manager, and father and daughter stopped talking. Sharon did apparently pay for her father's care in the last years of his life.
THE PRITZKER FAMILY
Matthew and Liesel Pritzker sued their father, Robert, and other family members, accusing them of looting their trust fund after the death of their grandfather, Jay Pritzker, who founded the Hyatt hotel chain.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH & THE MARSHALL FAMILY
When Texas oilman J. Howard Marshall died in 1995, his young, new wife Anna Nicole Smith was not pleased to learn that he left all of his wealth to the younger of his two sons, E. Pierce Marshall (when did he die?). She fought the decision in court until her death (when?).
HUGUETTE CLARK FAMILY
The reclusive daughter of U.S. Sen. William A. Clark died in 2011, leaving a $300 million fortune. She stated in her will that none of that money should go to her 20 living relatives, who contested and won after a two-year court battle (who did she leave money to?).
CURTIS & PRESTLEY BLAKE
The Blake brothers opened their first Friendly ice cream shop as young men in 1935. They enjoyed decades of success before selling the company to Hershey Foods Corp. in 1979. It was sold again eight years later. But it wasn't until 2007 that things became less than friendly between the siblings. When the company announced it was looking into yet another sale with the help of Goldman Sachs, Curtis wrote to Prestley, who still owned 13 percent of the company, asking him not to allow another sale. Prestley didn't heed his brother's advice.
