Faith Evans sued by estate of Biggie’s late mother, Voletta Wallace, over music catalog

The ex-wife of The Infamous B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), Religion Evans, and his former supervisor, Wayne Barrow—the executor of the property of Voletta Wallace, the rapper’s late mom—are embroiled in a lawsuit over allegedly withheld proceeds stemming from the sale of Biggie’s catalog (by his mom) to Major Wave, a music publishing and expertise administration firm. The deal was price a reported $100 million, and Voletta secured the sale earlier than her passing in February 2025. 

In line with Billboard, Voletta managed an LLC holding Biggie’s property after his loss of life in March 1997. Voletta then bought a 50 % stake to Major Wave for $100 million for Biggie’s music publishing and recordings, in addition to sure title, picture, and likeness rights. Upon Voletta’s loss of life, administration of the LLC transferred to Religion Evans, Biggie’s ex-wife. In line with the July 2 court docket submitting by Barrow, Evans was chargeable for offering the property its lower of the earnings from the sale, however has but to take action. 

“Ms. Evans has distributed sale proceeds to Ty’anna, CJ, and presumably to herself. She, nevertheless, has wrongfully withheld the Belief’s [redacted] share of the proceeds, within the quantity of [redacted],” shared Barrow in his go well with. 

Along with his declare that Evans has withheld earnings from Voletta’s property, he additionally claims that she refuses to acknowledge Voletta’s property as a 50 % companion within the holding firm, thereby maintaining her property (Barrow) fully at nighttime about all enterprise of the corporate. 

Barrow is making an attempt to safe a court docket order requiring Evans to supply Voletta’s belief its share of the proceeds and have Evans eliminated as supervisor of the rapper’s asset holding firm citing her “continued misconduct and disrespect for her obligations,” and trying to be named supervisor of the holding firm. 

Neither Evans nor Major Wave had responded to the petition.