William F. Buckley Left Illegitimate Grandson Out Of His Will: "I Intentionally Make No Provisions For Said Jonathan, Who...Shall Be Deemed To Have Predeceased Me"

New York Post:

Before he died, William F. Buckley Jr. put his young grandson on the firing line.

The intellectual conservative icon - renowned for his erudition and use of uncommon words - excluded his son's illegitimate child from his massive estate, insisting the kid was dead in his eyes.

"I intentionally make no provision herein for said Jonathan, who for all purposes . . . shall be deemed to have predeceased me," Buckley's will says, according to the Hartford Courant.

The National Review founder and notable New Yorker instead left his entire estate - estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars - to his only child, Christopher Buckley, and Christopher's two older kids, Caitlin and William.

Jonathan, now 8, is the product of an Christopher's affair with book publicist Irina Woelfle.

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Comments

[disgusted48]

If the kid has any luck, he won't inherit his granddad's looks either.

[grailknight]

Good Catholic man!

[odoreida]

The child's father is no longer a Catholic.

[grailknight]

Once baptized, you're a catholic for life, it's like being tattooed or branded, that's how the nuns explained it to this heretic.

[Kindheart]

His grandchild never asked to be born. I am not surprised at his lack of empathy for that. And the repubs think they are for family values.

I do hope someone in the family sets up a trust fund for the kid.

[conservativesoncrack]

Repug family values at work, my dear friends! How beautiful family is... to say nothing of responsibilities taken. This kid is nowhere near at fault, but he pays the biggest price.

[Puller58]

Gang, this is just the old high society mentality at work. ("We must keep it out of the papers!") Christopher Buckley gave an interview recently where he admitted to taking LSD once upon a time. Guess that was ok with Daddy.

[odoreida]

I guess it was. WFB wrote a column a long time ago advocating the legalization of pot.

[grantlingel]

What a jerk... that is horrible..

http://grantlingel.blogspot.com

[BarackMan]

He's not a jerk.....h­e's much much worse. May the Lord bless him for his deeds.

[odoreida]

He's not a jerk....he was a very nice man. I used to know him. He was very well-liked -- and for good reason.

[YeahDonkey]

Don't care move on

[mredder4]

Does this fall under the umbrella of "compassionate conservativism"?

[indyleftist]

Family Values

[BobSF94117]

I bet there's an archaic, long, and hard-to-pronounce word to describe this sort of despicable behavior..­.

[neurologymatters]

I hope the will is disputed and Buckley is found to be incompetent and the adorable child, who is very much alive, will have the last laugh on his Paternal Grandfater. The children are innocent.

[odoreida]

Even if the will is thrown out, the law of intestacy would not help this child. In most states, where there is no valid will, the surviving spouse, children, parents, siblings, nieces and nephews, and next of kin inherit, in that order.

[ProfessorDuh]

What a creep. Buh-buh Buckley.

[kellygrrrl]

how very Christianlike! Such Family values!

[SouthernYankeeBelle]

Yeah I hope the bum rest in peace in hell. Poor kid didn't ask to be born. Christopher is a dead beat father and should be ashamed of himself. I would go after the dad for what is rightly his inheritance.

[odoreida]

"Yeah I hope the bum rest in peace in hell."

Clearly, you're the Sweetheart of the World.

"I would go after the dad for what is rightly his inheritanc­e."

Nothing is "rightly his inheritanc­e." He is not entitled to a penny from his grandfather.
Where do you people get such peculiar ideas about inheritance? He is however entitled to child support from his father, which he has been receiving.

[imfedup]

What a POS.

[1dogs2]

There's conservative family values for you! Love the fetus, screw the child.

[BarackMan]

Pretty much what they have been doing for years.....­.aka what's his name?? The Rep. from Florida trying to get to the congressional pages?? O yeah.....M­ark Foley.

[Chalkeater]

I thought elitists were supposed to be liberals. What could be more elitist than Willim Buckley's "He's not a real Buckley" mentality?