Overview
- The filing, made Thursday, asks a Pennsylvania judge to declare invalid an amendment executed 15 days before Voletta Wallace’s death and to remove Wayne Barrow as executor of her estate.
- CJ Wallace Jr. says his grandmother was in declining health and on multiple medications when the change was signed and asserts the amendment’s signatures look “facially inconsistent,” urging forensic review.
- Under the 2020 will, Voletta had left personal property to her grandchildren and directed her interest in the company that manages Biggie’s catalog toward her foundation, a plan the amendment would override.
- The challenge arrives after recent court rulings have allowed Barrow to access trust distributions and after monetization deals for Biggie’s catalog increased the financial stakes tied to Voletta’s share.
- Litigation is now active in multiple states and the dispute could determine whether future music royalties and trust payments flow to family heirs or to the Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation.