The rapper died at 35, and he didn’t have a will at the time of his passing.

“He was young,” Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s former manager Jarred Weisfeld told the New York Post. “You can’t tell somebody who’s 35 to get a will.”

 

Ashana’s mother, Krishana Rucker, received a $500,000 settlement in 2020 for outstanding child support that dated back to the time of his death. Payments were completed in February.

“Now I need to sign off that the case is closed,” Rucker told the Post. “Then I will give my lawyer a retainer and commission him to get my daughter her inheritance from Russell’s estate.”

While her mother has received financial support from the late rapper’s estate, Ashana and her siblings have not.

“I have not seen anything as of yet and neither have my half-siblings,” she shared with the Post. “I don’t know what is owed. But I just want what is owed. That sum can be sizable and right now I have received zero.”

Since ODB’s passing, New York State determined the money would be divided between his wife, Icelene Jones, who would get 50%, and his seven children, who would split the other 50%. Icelene was also named the administrator of the estate.

 

Some of ODB’s family members were not happy with Icelene’s appointment and how she managed ODB’s estate. Rucker alleged that Icelene “tried to cut off the four kids who weren’t hers from any inheritance by maintaining they were not Russell’s children.” Rucker said that the widow “went so far as to file a frivolous lawsuit in the state of California against my daughter [Ashana] and I claiming that we lied about Russell being her father. She ultimately withdrew the suit. But is that the lowest thing you can do?”

Rucker added that Icelene “has not given us an accounting of the estate’s money.”

Back in 2007, two of the mothers of ODB’s children, Cheryl McCall and Suzy Wong, made a bid in surrogate court to have Icelene removed as the administrator, but it was unsuccessful.

Ashana told the New York Post that she reached out to Greg Watts, attorney for the estate, to shed light on where things stand.

“I reached out to Greg to try getting light on the situation about the heirs’ share,” she shared with the Post. “I reached out in the hope that somebody can tell me when everybody will get established and when I will get my payment, so I can avoid going to court. I don’t want to. But if I have to, I will. I am being ignored. Enough is enough. We have to stop playing games.”

Watts, who’s also Icelene’s attorney, chose not to comment on Ashana’s statement.

“No one has filed anything alleging … those comments,” he told the Post.

Watts asserted that the rapper’s children will be getting paid.

“Ashana and those who have been identified as heirs are distributees of the estate,” he said. “There was no money in the estate when it was first formed. Russell Jones died and there was nothing. His wife with other marketing executives were able to market his image and music [and] generate money for the estate.”