A judge has left B. B. King’s estate in the hands of his longtime business manager, Laverne Toney.

The decision has been made despite objections from a lawyer for four of the late blues legend’s daughters. Clark county District Judge Gloria Sturman initially refused to let attorneys Benjamin Crump and Jose Baez contest King’s will on behalf of daughters Karen Williams, Patty King, Rita Washington and Barbara Winfree.

The will, filed in January 2007, named Laverne Toney as the sole person in charge of administering King’s assets, his property and his trust. The trust documents have not been filed publicly.

The judge then rejected claims by Las Vegas attorney Larissa Drohobyczer that Toney had misused her power of attorney while King was alive to siphon about $1 million from personal bank accounts to joint accounts which she could access, and to block King’s relatives from visiting him in his final days.

“A million dollars is a big deal,” Judge Sturman said, leaving the argument for another time. “I’m not saying there may not be other issues or that we may not need outside assistance,” she said. “But he had a plan. I don’t see anything before me at this point in time that he wanted that changed.”

King’s daughters claimed that Toney stole from their father, isolated him and poisoned him before his May 14 death at age 89. Attorney Brent Bryson, lawyer for the estate and Toney, said these claims had no basis in fact. The daughters also claimed that a second competing will existed, however no evidence of this was put forth.

“There has to be more to the objections than hollow allegations and innuendo,” Bryson said.