Faith Evans Owes The Notorious B.I.G.’s Estate $12.5 Million

By Marcus Bennett

According to AllHipHop, in a report originally published by VIBE, a Delaware judge has awarded the Voletta Wallace Revocable Trust $12,518,336, including interest, for payouts made to Notorious B.I.G., LLC. The award concerns the estate of The Notorious B.I.G.’s mother, Voletta Wallace. The payouts involve intellectual property tied to the late rapper.

On Tuesday, Oct. 27, Judge Kathaleen St. J. McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery rejected Faith Evans’s legal team’s request to cap the judgment at $48,612. The full award goes to the Wallace trust, headed by Wayne Barrow, The Notorious B.I.G.’s former manager.

What does the ruling change for the trust?

The judgment gives the trust the full distribution claimed from Notorious B.I.G., LLC. The court also found that the trust became a company member on Dec. 12, 2025, when Barrow executed a written consent establishing its membership rights.

That status carries the trust’s entitlement to distributions dating back to Wallace’s death in February 2025. Evans and the company had argued that only $48,612 was payable.

McCormick also ordered prejudgment interest on the unpaid distributions. Interest runs from the dates the payments were made and compounds quarterly at the statutory rate.

The money at issue includes proceeds from a partnership with Primary Wave, announced in March 2025. According to the report, the partnership includes The Notorious B.I.G.’s name, image and likeness. The conflict arose from Evans’s refusal to distribute proceeds earned by Notorious B.I.G., LLC.

The estate remains contested

Christopher Jordan Wallace, better known as CJ, is the son of The Notorious B.I.G. and Faith Evans. He has challenged Barrow’s control of Wallace’s estate.

Before Wallace’s death in February 2025, she granted Barrow executorship of her estate. CJ also alleges that Barrow manipulated his grandmother into granting him executorship of the Voletta Wallace Revocable Trust.

Evans and CJ proposed placing the disputed funds under state control while questions surrounding the estate’s administration remained unresolved. McCormick rejected that approach. She found that the pending Pennsylvania proceedings could not undo actions Barrow took in good faith or change the trust’s right to distributions.

She applied Pennsylvania law, which protects good-faith administration by a personal representative from later impeachment through revocation of his letters or the probate of a later will or codicil.

Judge McCormick said: “The economic rights associated with Ms. Wallace’s units now belong to the Trust. Plaintiff Wayne Barrow, who appears in this action on behalf of the Trust, also holds Letters Testamentary issued on April 21, 2025, making him the sole executor of the Estate.”

She continued: “The outcome of the Pennsylvania action, therefore, will not affect the actions taken by Mr. Barrow related to the Trust, Ms. Wallace’s estate, and the Trust’s entitlement to distributions as of Ms. Wallace’s date of death.

“I therefore find no need for the accrued distributions to be deposited with the Register in Chancery. They are due to the Trust.”

Barrow represented the trust in the Delaware proceedings. He became executor in April 2025 and received Letters Testamentary on April 21, 2025.

McCormick directed Barrow to submit a final form of order reflecting the judgment and her previous rulings. The order will give effect to the award and prejudgment interest.

The Delaware ruling establishes the trust’s rights to the distributions. It does not resolve the separate Pennsylvania challenge to Barrow’s appointment.

For the trust, the immediate effect is financial: the full $12,518,336 judgment and accrued interest are due. Barrow has 20 days to submit the final Delaware order. The separate Pennsylvania case remains pending on his appointment.