According to the WSJ, a just lately found will suggests late Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh had concrete plans for his fortune regardless of earlier beliefs that he died with out leaving directions for an property that’s estimated to be value $1.2 billion.
Among different issues, the doc, signed in 2015 and included in a current courtroom submitting, incorporates a placing no-contest clause directed at Hsieh’s household: if any of his 4 members of the family challenges his needs, all will obtain nothing. The can even allocates over $50 million and several other Las Vegas properties to undisclosed trusts tied to recipients he aimed to shock.
Notably, Hsieh additionally earmarked $3 million for his alma mater Harvard University, the storied establishment that’s at the moment battling with the Trump administration, which has frozen billions of {dollars} in federal funding and is reportedly giving Harvard’s endowment a more in-depth look.
The will’s discovery provides one other weird component to the already unusual authorized battle over Hsieh’s property following his November 2020 dying in a home hearth at age 46. Hsieh reportedly crafted the need to create a “WOW issue” for beneficiaries, wanting them to “reside within the wow.”
