"It really protects celebrities and their heirs as far as the commercial use of their names and likenesses".
King William and his Queen will be 50-plus before their ruling moment arrives; and by then there'll be another young couple and another heir waiting far down the line (probably thinking of producing an heir for themselves).
But word on the front rows of the New York and London shows has been that the search for Ms. Shulman's heir is far from complete.
Mr Gore is the heir apparent, and far ahead in the (highly preliminary) polls;the strength of the left, though reviving, is not a threat to him.
The technique involves buying expensive life insurance that will be passed on to heirs, but declaring a far lower price on gift-tax returns.
At the time it was announced that the collection would go to Phillips, people close to the negotiations said the auction house had given the Smooke heirs a $185 million guarantee, far more than the $80 million to $100 million estimate experts at Phillips have now put on the collection.
Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung heirs was a 6-year-old slave girl valued soon afterward at $475.
That proposition will be tested this fall: Dan Stevens, who stars on "Downton Abbey" as Matthew Crawley, the reluctant heir, will play the far more callow character Morris Townsend in a revival of "The Heiress".
It was owned by the far-flung heirs of Si Tayeb el Mokri, a legend among Arab voluptuaries who served Morocco as finance minister and, until his death in 1949, as pasha of Casablanca under the current king's grandfather.
The exceptions are found among the highbrow organizations: The National Policy Institute and the Martel Society were founded and have been aided by William H. Regnery II, heir to a far-right publishing empire who also oversees a brace of anti-immigration lobbying groups.
