06/10/2026
The Bo Diddley Estate Story
1. The Setup & Will
• Vulnerability exploited: Dad couldn’t read. He trusted his executor, attorney Ronald Wesley Stevens, who he believed had integrity, to draft his Will.
• Conflict of interest: Stevens’s loyalty was to managers Margo Lewis and Faith Fusillo, not to Dad.
• Red flag in the document: Managers were listed on page one of the Will, ahead of Dad’s own children and family.
• Managers or executor can sue the beneficiaries with estate (family) money.
• If accounting errors are made, and not contested, the error is deemed as “accepted”” and forgiven” as the error cannot be reconciled.
2. The Song Catalogue Sale
• Contradictory statements: Lewis emailed: “Ron is a lying cocksucker. We are not selling your father’s music.” Yet she sat with the “anti-family team” in court to sell my father’s music to the very people who stole it from him, the family of Phil & Leonard Chess.
• We offered the court a 10-year lease that would preserve our catalogue ownership. Publishing, writer’s share, and mechanicals would revert to the family at the terms end.
• Outcome: Judge Robert Roundtree allowed Lewis & Fusillo to sell them in perpetuity instead.
• What was lost: 68 of the highest-earning songs were forced into a sale — even though dad paid a legal team to reclaim his song ownership via Termination Rights.
3. Margo Lewis & Faith Fusillo’s Role
• Commission structure: From the day Daddy died in 2008, to 2017, Lewis and Fusillo took 30% off the top — before taxes — of every royalty stream tied to Bo Diddley’s name. Including the Billy Bo guitar sales, the movie ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ placements, etc. They earned more from royalties after his death than he did while alive.
• Harassment: Fusillo created multiple Facebook profiles to harass family members who spoke out. She, as Frenchie25, was forced from Huffington Post after disparaging the family. Earlier this year, an action they failed to disclose to the current trustee was deemed as egregiously improper in that they created a publishing entity, naming themselves as the owners and taking 50% of all earnings while splitting the earnings with Peter Raleigh of Songs of Peter. What nerve!@
4. The Resignation Agreement Breach
• Lewis and Fusillo signed a Resignation Agreement the deceased trustee never disclosed to beneficiaries.
• Trustee falsely claimed every beneficiary took it to independent counsel — impossible, since the family was never told it existed.
• Terms breached: They kept control of the estate webpage, tapes stolen from Dad’s studio, and memorabilia they promised to return proving they have no respect for the terms of their own agreement.
5. Current Situation
• Three family members now need medical assistance but can’t afford to seek proper medical treatment, but the lawyers get paid.
• As a result, the family is fighting pro se.
• Next step: The truth will be told in The Lewis-Fusillo Files, regardless of a court ruling.
