A suit filed by activist-entertainer Harry Belafonte against the estates of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his late wife, Coretta Scott King, over the King children’s claims to documents that had long been in Belafonte’s possession has been settled. According to the attorneys, a compromise will allow Belafonte to retain possession of the documents.
In a filing entered Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Belafonte dismissed his claims against Dr. King’s corporate estate and Bernice King, the administrator of Mrs. King’s estate. Belafonte sued in October when King estate—which is directed by King’s sons, Dexter King and Martin Luther King III—and Bernice King laid claim to three documents Belafonte had asked Sotheby’s auction house to appraise and perhaps put up for sale.
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