go about the business of focusing on our parents ' tremendous legacy . '' The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968 in Memphis , Tennessee , where he was to lead garbage workers on a protest march . King 's wife , Coretta Scott King , also devoted her life to the civil rights movement , died in 2006 . Attorneys for Bernice King and Martin Luther King III would not say Friday how much money they are accusing Dexter King of taking from their mother 's estate . Bernice King is the administrator of that estate . Dexter King , the suit says , controls their father 's estate , which is registered as a Georgia corporation . All three children are shareholders in that corporation . The lawsuit names Dexter King and the corporation as defendants . It alleges that last month , the defendants `` converted substantial funds from the estate 's financial account at Bank of America for their own use . '' Harmon Caldwell , an Atlanta attorney representing the plaintiffs , said Dexter King is a signatory on the account , but `` was not authorized to transfer the funds
ATLANTA , Georgia -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Two of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 's children are suing their brother , accusing him of wrongfully taking money from their parents ' estates . Dexter King , left , Bernice King and Martin Luther King III attend a 2006 tribute for their late mother . Bernice King and Martin Luther King III allege that Dexter King took `` substantial funds '' out of Coretta Scott King 's estate and `` wrongfully appropriated '' money from their father 's estate . The suit , filed Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court , serves as a very public fissure in an iconic family that has always professed unity , particularly as questions have swirled around some of their financial dealings . In a written statement Friday , Dexter King called the suit `` inappropriate and false . '' `` I 'm disappointed that our personal family disagreement , as it relates to the family business , has evolved into being handled in a public legal forum , '' he said . `` It is my hope that this inappropriate and false claim by my siblings will be swiftly resolved and we can