Dolly Parton grew up in a tiny log cabin nestled north of the Smoky Mountains, one of 11 siblings living in abject poverty.
But at the time of her death from cancer on August 25, the country superstar was worth some $450 million, ranking her among the top 100 richest self-made women in America, according to Forbes.
She’d come a long way from “barely getting by” — as she sang in her hit tribute to working class life “9 to 5.”
Her passing, less than 18 months after husband Carl Dean — with whom she had no children — leaves many potential claimants to her sizeable estate within her family, which is a huge number of people when all her nieces…
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