{"id":669525,"date":"2026-10-30T04:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669525\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T04:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:22:08","slug":"faith-evans-must-pay-12-5-million-to-notorious-b-i-g-s-ex-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669525\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Evans Must Pay $12.5 Million to Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s Ex-Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFaith Evans<\/a>\u00a0has lost a multimillion-dollar legal battle<\/a> with\u00a0the estate of the late mother of Notorious B.I.G. over distribution of funds tied to the late rap star\u2019s trust.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to\u00a0AllHipHop<\/a>, a Delaware judge awarded a $12.5 million judgment to\u00a0Voletta Wallace\u00a0Revocable Trust \u2014 Biggie\u2019s mother, Voletta Wallace\u2019s estate \u2014 including interest, for payouts made to Notorious B.I.G., LLC, the trust overseeing Biggie\u2019s intellectual property.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Tuesday, Oct. 27, Judge Kathaleen St. J. McCormick of the Delaware Court<\/a> of Chancery rejected Evans\u2019 legal team\u2019s request to limit the judgment to $48,612, and ruled she must pay the full $12,518,336 awarded to Wallace\u2019s trust, which is headed by\u00a0Wayne Barrow, the Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s former manager.<\/p>\n

\n\tBiggie and Evan\u2019s son, Christopher Jordan Wallace, better known as CJ, has challenged Barrow\u2019s control of Wallace\u2019s estate, which Wallace granted Barrow executorship of before\u00a0her death in February 2025<\/a>. CJ accuses Barrow of manipulating his grandmother Voletta Wallace into granting him executorship of the Voletta Wallace Revocable Trust.<\/p>\n

\n\tCJ and Evans proposed having the state take control of the disputed funds amid questions surrounding the estate\u2019s administration. McCormick rejected that approach, finding that the pending Pennsylvania proceedings would not undo actions Barrow had taken in good faith or change the trust\u2019s entitlement to distributions.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn her ruling, she wrote, \u201cThe economic rights associated with Ms. Wallace\u2019s units now belong to the Trust. Plaintiff Wayne Barrow, who appears in this action on behalf of the Trust, also holds Letters Testamentary issued on April 21, 2025, making him the sole executor of the Estate. Pennsylvania law provides that \u2018[n]o act of administration performed by a personal representative in good faith shall be impeached by the subsequent revocation of his letters or by the subsequent probate of a will, of a later will or of a codicil.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tShe added: \u201cThe outcome of the Pennsylvania action, therefore, will not affect the actions taken by Mr. Barrow related to the Trust, Ms. Wallace\u2019s estate, and the Trust\u2019s entitlement to distributions as of Ms. Wallace\u2019s date of death. I therefore find no need for the accrued distributions to be deposited with the Register in Chancery. They are due to the Trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe judge also ruled that the trust became a member of Notorious B.I.G., LLC, on Dec. 12, 2025, when Barrow executed a written consent establishing its membership rights. The decision entitled the trust to distributions dating back to Wallace\u2019s death, rather than limiting its recovery to the smaller amount Evans and the company argued was payable.<\/p>\n

\n\tMcCormick further ordered prejudgment interest on those distributions, calculated from the dates the payments were made and compounded quarterly at the statutory rate. Barrow, who represented the trust in the Delaware proceedings, received Letters Testamentary after being appointed executor in April 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe legal battle\u00a0between Barrow and Evans\u00a0stems from the R&B star\u2019s refusal to distribute proceeds earned from Notorious B.I.G. LLC, including its partnership with Primary Wave, announced in March 2025, which includes Biggie\u2019s name, image, and likeness.<\/p>\n

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\n\tMcCormick gave Barrow 20 days to submit a final form of order reflecting the judgment and the court\u2019s previous rulings. Although the Delaware decision establishes the trust\u2019s rights to the distributions, the separate Pennsylvania challenge to Barrow\u2019s appointment remains a separate, pending legal matter.<\/p>\n

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