![]() Some heirs are furious that estate administrators and lawyers in Kingston, Miami and New York have reaped $4 million in fees while supposedly acting in the heirs' best interests. The estate is administered by Jamaica's largest bank, with courts intervening when necessary - which is often. Mother B and other Marley family members are attempting to reclaim the reggae king's legacy before it is lost completely to legal fees or auctioned to foreign investors. His estate may never have the earning potential of, say, Elvis Presley's (still bringing in $15 million a year), but it's an unbelievable bonanza in a dirt-poor country like Jamaica (where the minimum wage is the equivalent of $14 a week). ![]() Marley had little tangible property, but his recordings generate $2.5 million a year in royalties. But he left no will, sparking endless claims for his fortune, suits and counter-suits. Yah, mon!"Ĭedella Booker, 65, regal in flowing black robes and yellow headdress, is known in Jamaica as "Mother B." She is matriarch of the sometimes contentious musical family that survived Marley he had at least 11 children by eight different women. You know what my fees are - 'īob Marley's mother, who hasn't heard this one before, chimes in excitedly: "That's what's going on with this estate. They go to a lawyer, who says, 'Okay, I'll help you settle it. Then there's an argument over who the pearl belongs to: the one who found the oyster or the one who discovered the pearl. ![]() One picks it up and says, 'Look at dis nice oyster.' The other says, 'Let me see,' and takes it and opens it and finds a pearl. "Two guys are walking on the beach and they see an oyster. Standing outside the Bob Marley crypt in the mountain village where he was born, about 30 miles west of Ocho Rios, she tells this one, her summation of 10 years of legal wrangling since Marley died of cancer: Now she advises his mother, Cedella Marley Booker - who, like everyone connected to the Marley estate, needs good legal advice.Īnd like every lawyer, Jobson knows a lawyer joke. She's a Rasta lawyer.įor many years, Diane Jobson was legal counsel and close friend to Bob Marley, the great reggae musician and proponent of flack liberation. Her brown hair, just going gray, is matted into dreadlocks, tucked beneath a black tam. She's smoking a hand-rolled marijuana cigar. She is repped by CAA in the US, BWH Agency in the UK, Danielle Robinson and Sloane Offer.NINE MILES, JAMAICA - Diane Jobson isn't like any lawyer you've ever seen. Lynch is having herself quite a moment that starts with her scene-stealing performance in the most recent James Bond pic No Time to Die. On top of that she also was recently see in Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Next up for her is Sony’s The Woman King, which is already drawing award season buzz as well as Netflix’s Matilda adaptation where she plays Ms. After she joined The Soulettes, Marley began mentoring the group, which ultimately led to the two falling in love. The two met when Rita was a young singer and Bob was still a member of the Wailers vocal trio. While audiences remember Bob for his impact on the Reggae scene and political activism, his and Rita’s love story has its own timeless feel to it and is equally essential part to telling his incredible life story. Script is by Green and Zach Baylin.īob Marley died of cancer in 1981 at age 36, but in that short lifetime he changed the landscape of music, introducing generations to reggae with such songs as “Get Up, Stand Up,” “One Love,” “No Woman, No Cry,” “Could You Be Loved,” “Buffalo Soldier,” “Jammin’” and “Redemption Song.” Rita, Ziggy and Cedella Marley will also produce on behalf of Tuff Gong. ![]() Michael Gandolfini, Tosin Cole, James Norton & Others Round Out Cast Of Paramount's Bob Marley Biopic ![]()
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