Episode Guide THE ESTATE OF HOWARD HUGHES In April 1976, notorious billionaire and eccentric Howard Hughes dies at the age of 70. He leaves behind an estate worth over $2 billion, and a desperate search for his will ensues. Mysteriously, a handwritten will seemingly signed by Hughes appears three weeks later on the desk of a Mormon official in Utah. Beneficiaries include charities, his ex-wives, medical researchers and family members. But the alleged will also leaves $156 million to an unknown Nevada gas station attendant named Melvin Dummar. Why? According to Dummar, he had once rescued a disheveled man from the side of a highway in Nevada — a man claiming to be famed billionaire, Howard Hughes. An epic legal battle begins to prove whether Dummar's story is fiction and if the "Mormon Will" is an elaborate forgery, but thirty years later Dummar returns to court with new evidence that could blow the case wide open. |
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