Court Orders Faith Evans to Send Nearly $14 Million in Notorious B.I.G. Profits to Wallace Trust

Delaware Chancery Court Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick has ordered Faith Evans, the widow of The Notorious B.I.G., to send nearly $14 million in estate profits to a trust set up by his mother, Voletta Wallace. Billboard reported the ruling on 29 October 2026.

The money is Voletta Wallace's share of estate profits from February to December 2025, which totals $12.5 million before interest. With interest, the figure comes to nearly $14 million. Evans, an R&B singer, has managed the rapper's intellectual property alone since Wallace's death.

The court ruled that all economic rights tied to Wallace's membership stake in a limited liability company (LLC, a business structure that holds assets on behalf of its owners) passed to her estate when she died on 21 February 2025. It also found that the trust, as the ultimate beneficiary, is entitled to payments that had built up by the date of her death.

Wayne Barrow, who managed The Notorious B.I.G., was named Wallace's legal trustee after she died. Barrow is 61 years old. He has said the trust should receive a 25% share of estate earnings, including profits from the Primary Wave catalogue deal, a sale of a stake in the rapper's music rights. Under the terms of Wallace's will, Barrow will donate the distributed funds to the Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation.

This ruling is one of several disputes over the estate. In August, a court granted Barrow summary judgment on two claims in his case against Evans. Summary judgment is a decision made without a full trial, based on points of law where the key facts are not in dispute. People reported that the case concerned control of the rapper's intellectual property. Hip Hop Wired described that August win as the first of two lawsuits over proceeds from the sale of a stake in the Notorious B.I.G.'s music.

A separate fight concerns Wallace's will. An earlier version of her estate plan named her son, CJ Wallace, and Barrow as co-trustees. Weeks before she died, it was changed to give Barrow sole control. CJ Wallace is suing Barrow in Pennsylvania to change the will. He alleges that Barrow manipulated Wallace into rewriting it on her deathbed. Barrow denies this. These are allegations, and no court has ruled on them.

For the family, the dispute now runs through two courts, one in Delaware and one in Pennsylvania. The Delaware order is about money that has been building since Wallace's death. Where it goes, and who decides how the estate is run from here, is still being argued.