We had a couple of threads about it at the time. Only one of those actually had her name in the title, mea culpa.
In the case of somebody who has posthumous income, it’s pretty typical to keep the estate operating as a legal entity as long as the income lasts. What the estate does with that income is entirely a matter of the terms of the wills, trusts, etc., that the decedent set up (or didn’t).
As well, the lay press will frequently refer to “the estate of <somebody>” even when at time of writing the legal estate is long closed and what survives is the trust set up to manage the ongoing income and assets for the benefit of whoever.
Unfortunately, it might be getting more popular.
I see he is making news once more; Warren Harding must rank as one of the great falls from grace after death. He died quite a popular President. Soon afterwards his administration was proven to have been corrupt.
True, but there are a lot of assholes who are rude to their coworkers, and that alone usually isn’t enough to destroy their public personna the way the OP describes.
(ISTR that “On the Road” was actually Kuralt’s idea. The network let him try it as an experiment, and everyone soon realized that things were much better all around.)
The same is true of Junipero Serra, senior Padre of the California mission system.
The natives only purpose on earth was to have their souls saved. If they died by the thousands in the process, so what! They would spend eternity in heaven. He’s now in the process of becoming a saint.