The Wild Card in Jackson's Estate?

As other blogs have noted, the wild card in Michael Jackson's estate (see preceding post) may be the Jackson name itself.

The good news: Jackson's posthumous "right of publicity" could be worth a fortune.

The bad news: The estate tax would be humongous.

Might Jackson's heirs have been better off had he died, like Marilyn Monroe, as a resident of New York, where the right is not descendible?