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Reid Kress Weisbord , Rutgers University - Newark and Naomi Cahn , University of Virginia

(THE CONVERSATION) When professional wrestler and former reality TV star Hulk Hogan died on July 24, 2025 , he left behind a grieving widow, two ex-wives , two children, two grandchildren he reportedly never met and a US$25 million fortune . He was 71 years old and died after having a heart attack.

News quickly broke that his daughter, entertainer Brooke Hogan, was estranged from her father, that she would “ get nothing ” from him and that she had arranged to have herself “ taken out ” of his will by asking Hogan’s financial manager to remove her name.

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