Natalie Cole's cause of death was a rare lung condition, which led to her heart failing (per Reuters). The singer was married three times. She only had one child, named Robert Adam Yancy (pictured left with Cole above), from her first marriage to music producer husband Marvin Yancy. Her last and final marriage was to Kenneth Dupree and ended in 2004 (via WJTV). When Cole died, she was not married.
Cole had an active and straightforward will. In her final request, she named several people to inherit her assets valued at $1.3 million, per New York Daily News. These people were family and close friends. The amount designated per beneficiary was not public, but her son Robert seemingly inherited a bulk of her estate. She named her one and only child as the main beneficiary of her estate. Despite dying about two years after his mother (per USA Today), Yancy had about $500,000 in assets to his name (per Patch).
Other people named in Cole's will were her twin little sisters, Timolin and Casey Cole, and her cousin, Pamela Harris. Two friends named Benita Hill and Tamara Engelstein, who apparently offered great support to Cole during her years of suffering with addiction, were left undisclosed gifts.
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