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Valmai Roche, an Australian socialite has left her three daughters with $1.50 each from her 4.6 million fortunes because she believed that they had plotted to kill her mother. Golda Bechal, an English property mogul bequeaths all of her a $13m wealth to the owners of a Chinese takeaway rather than her family. (BBC News, 2015) The American film and stage actor, Henry Fonda left all the money to his second wife and adopted daughter excluding his other children from the first marriage. (The New York Times, 1982) These headlines might seem only typical for the life of rich and famous, but as cruel as it sounds to disinherit an offspring, it is more common now as ways to express disapproval of someone.

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