Not here, my dear: Rick Wright's will

The Telegraph seems strangely obsessed with Rick Wright's decision to leave his ex-wives nothing in his will - is there some social mos that I've missed that you're supposed to leave money to people you've divorced?

What's more eyecatching is the amount of cash left behind by Wright:

Profits from writing, recording, performing and royalty meant that Wright was worth £23.7 million when he died a year ago from cancer at the age of 65.

I think the paper means "royalties" rather than "profit from... royalty." Wright wasn't, as far as I know, running a string of Duchesses in the Polite Cage Fighting scene.

Twenty-three point seven million. Sloshing about. It's an interesting figure, at a time when the BPI and UK Music are straining to uphold the current arrangement of the music industry, suggesting that it's file-sharers who are stopping young artists from making money. How many four-piece guitar bands could have been kept going it just half of that cash had been redirected rather than sent straight to Pink Floyd? The pile of pounds shows that the music industry really isn't working very well for most bands, but incredibly nicely for a few.

Brown's estate settled

Considering how long the bickering over a rich, fertile dead man's estate can last, settlement has come swiftly for James Brown's descendants.

Half of his money is going to go to charity; a quarter to his wife; the rest will be spread amongst his kids. Under James Brown original will, his wife was only supposed to receive black coffee and a hard roll, which he considered enough to keep anyone running.

How much for that doggy in the window?

There's something pleasing that Lita Roza, who had a number one with How Much is That Doggy In The Window, has left the bulk of her estate to animal charities.

[Related: Lita Roza obituary]

Rav claims Brit makes pap sole heir

In a story which, clearly, everyone at the News of the World is slightly embarrassed about and has thus been buried in Rav Singh's showbiz blog, Rav announces that Brit is going to find time this week to change her will:

BURNT-OUT star BRITNEY SPEARS is set to add new snapper boyfriend ADNAN GHALIB to her will, I can reveal.

It means that if the car-crash singer dies, Adnan could pocket her estimated $130M (£65m) fortune.

So - let's just assume that there's any truth at all in the heart of this story, if you can strain your credibility far enough to believe that Britney is thinking about popping down to the solicitors and changing her last will and testament - Rav is just assuming that the whole lot will go to Adnan; and, further, that nobody in her family would object to the terms of the arrangement. Perhaps by suggesting, you know, that the "being of sound mind" bit at the top of the document couldn't be substantiated?

Even Rav seems to, obliquely, understand this:

If proof were needed that Britney is losing the plot in her increasingly bizarre life story, then I think this is it.

Yes, an unsourced, half-baked rumour about something which Spears hasn't even done. That's certainly more convincing that many of the things which have already happened, Rav.