Brooke Astor

A hedge fund manager and his wife from Dobbs Ferry plunked down $6.45 million for Brooke Astor's grand 65-acre estate. The owners are Stacey Sorrow and Ronald Gutfleish, a managing member of Elm Ridge Capital in Irvington, records indicate.  

Paintings of dogs are long gone from the rounded foyer walls of Brooke Astor's Holly Hill estate. Also gone are the porcelain figurines, Chinese lacquer furniture, and her breathtaking jewelry by Bulgari and Tiffany & Co.  

Almost five years after she died at 105, the court battle over Brooke Astor's will has been resolved. The big loser? Astor's only son, Anthony Marshall. The big winners? The New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and New Yorkers in general. [ more › ]  

The tabloid newspapers and bloggers like nothing more than a messy fight involving a wealthy family. The 2009 trial of Anthony Marshall, the son of Brooke Astor, heiress to much of the Astor fortune, was daily fodder for New York papers.  

The $100 million controversy surrounding Brooke Astor's estate has finally reached a settlement, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today. The lump sum will be divided among several charities, including the New York Public Library, the ...  

WHITE PLAINS, NY - The long dispute over the estate of socialite philanthropist Brooke Astor ended Wednesday with a settlement that frees $100 million for charities and cuts by more than half the amount going to the son convicted of bilking her.  

Brooke Astor's spirit of philanthropy has been resurrected after half of her crooked son’s $31 million inheritance was slashed in a settlement. Anthony Marshall, 87, convicted in 2009 of fleecing his feeble mom’s fortune, was stripped of $14 ...  

The settlement, approved by the Westchester County Surrogate's Court, includes a $30 million Brooke Astor Fund for New York City Education and cuts Anthony Marshall's inheritance by more than 50 percent, along with full restitution for the New York County ...  

Marshall and the charities had disagreed on which of several wills and revisions expressed Astor's true intent ... If the story moves you, compels you to act or tells you something you didn’t know, mark it high. If you thought it was well written ...  

A settlement reached Wednesday ended five years of legal wrangling over the estate of Brooke Astor, the late philanthropist and New York City socialite, and significantly reduced the inheritance of Astor's son sending tens of millions of dollars to her ha  

Brooke Astor Estate Case Finally Settled: AG | New York Daily News: “Brooke Astor was at the center of New York philanthropy for nearly half a century,” Schneiderman said. “Her legendary generosity and charisma touched New Yorkers of all backgrounds. I am pleased that my office led the way to an agreement that honors Mrs. Astor’s final wishes and benefits New York's landmark educational and  

Remainders: Brooke Astor estate to leave $30M to city educationGothamSchoolsby Philissa Cramer, at 6:20 pm Brooke Astor's estate has been settled; “New York City Education” is getting $30 million. (Daily Politics) PS 125 in Harlem is getting help from a nonprofit after cutting its arts program last year.  

We also extend thanks to the office of the Manhattan District Attorney, under both former D.A. Robert Morgenthau and his successor, Cyrus Vance. This office defended Mrs. Astor’s clear, original intention to leave significant portions of her estate to charity.  

Westchester County Surrogate Judge Anthony Scarpino signed the agreement yesterday before ... Rockefeller University, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the city's Animal Medical Center and Trinity Episcopal Church. The attorney general's office stepped into ...  

New York MagazineAstor, Madoff, Spitzer, WeinerNew York MagazineSame with Brooke Astor, because it's axiomatic: Where there's a will, there's a war. Madoff's story will have long legs because swindlers tend to be immortalized. But the Weiner scandal may go down in the books because it's the only postmodern one.