* Two more individuals claiming to be relatives of the late pop star Prince came forward on Wednesday to seek a piece of the musician’s estate.
Lawyers for Brianna Nelson, 31, identified as a niece of Prince, and an 11-year-old girl identified as his grandniece and her initials “V.N.” in court documents, filed papers in Minnesota probate court asserting they are among his heirs.
Both claim to be surviving descendants of Prince — born Prince Rogers Nelson — as daughter and granddaughter to his late half-brother, Duane Nelson Sr, who once headed Prince’s security detail and died in 2011. Their court motion states that Duane Nelson Sr, was omitted from a list of six siblings and half-siblings documented in the original probate petition filed by Prince’s sister, Tyka Nelson, in late April. If Prince left no will and no surviving offspring of his own, as Tyka Nelson has claimed, then his estate under Minnesota law would be apportioned in equal shares to his siblings and the nearest surviving descendents of any siblings now dead, according to the filing.
