Aaron Carter’s Ex-Fiancee Melanie Martin Claims His Mom Jane Is Trying to ‘Gain Rights’ to Son’s Inheritance

Aaron Carter’s former fiancée Melanie Martin is claiming that the late singer’s mother, Jane Carter, is trying to steal their 4-year-old son’s inheritance.

“Hi guys, I’m just going to say it straight up: Aaron’s mother is trying to gain rights to Prince’s inheritance and his name,” Martin, 33, alleged in a Wednesday, December 3, Facebook post. 

Martin continued, “I have to pay a lot of court fees and lawyer fees in the next few months, so I’ll be working extra hard on Love Merch and bartending in the meantime to pay for all the court fees and ensure my son gets Aaron’s rightful inheritance. Aaron didn’t have much family but he did have fans and you all continue to care about Aaron’s family which is Prince and I.”

Us Weekly has reached out to Jane for comment.

In November 2022, Aaron was found dead at his California home at the age of 34. It was later confirmed by authorities that he had drowned due to the effects of Xanax and difluoroethane, an inhalant. The pop singer’s sixth and final album, Blacklisted, was released two days after his death.

Aaron proposed to Martin in June 2020, and the pair welcomed son Prince in November 2021 amid their on-off relationship. They called off their engagement the following year. 

Last month, Aaron’s twin sister, Angel Carter, exclusively opened up to Us about how she honored him on the third anniversary of his death.

“I buried Aaron about five minutes from my house for us, so I went there after I dropped my daughter off at school, and I’m able to just go and have that moment with him,” Angel said while attending a Cure Addiction Now event in Los Angeles. 

Aaron was one of five siblings. Aaron and Angel’s sister Leslie Carter died of a drug overdose in 2012. Another sister, Bobbie Jean Carter, died of intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl and methamphetamine in 2023.

Nick Carter, a member of the Backstreet Boys, is Angel’s only remaining sibling. 

“There are little things that I do to honor my siblings,” Angel told Us on November 10. “I put little angel wings on our Christmas tree that I’ve been doing every year.”

At the time, Angel said that she’d seen “Prince the other day, and my niece Bella, who lives with my mom. So it’s complicated, but there’s a lot of love there, and I hope that as an aunt and a family member, they can look up to me, and they can always knock on our door. We’ll always be there.”

Two years after Aaron’s death, Prince made his red carpet debut with Martin and Angel at the L.A. screening of the Paramount+ documentary The Carters: Hurts to Love You, which chronicled the Carter family’s battles with addiction, mental illness and neglect. The film was told from Angel’s perspective.

“There were so many happy times within my family and certainly with my siblings and myself. So being able to look back on [home] videos, it’s not only a memory, but it’s a feeling that you can tap back into,” Angel exclusively told Us in April.

She added: “It gave me a better understanding of the abuse and what they went through and why certain things happened. So that was hard. It was painful to watch. What you didn’t see in the documentary is when I was watching those tough videos — the aftermath of the emotional breakdown that I had because it just brought a lot of clarity for me.”

“The honest truth is that there [were] a lot of bad things that had happened to us as kids — and there were bad things that happened to my parents,” Angel continued. “There’s a generational component to this where patterns and behaviors were repeated within the family.”

She added that she didn’t “have any ill will towards my parents. What’s done is done. It’s about what we can do now moving forward. I just want people to know that you’re not alone, that we all have our struggles and that even though my family had fame and money, we are just like you and we are in this together.”