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Gail Posner's Dog Conchita Receives Dead Heiress' Massive Inheritance

Huffington Post   First Posted: 06/17/10 10:02 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:50 PM ET

Gail Posner

Heiress Gail Posner's dogs are used to living in the lap of luxury, and despite their owner passing away, it seems they won't have to make any adjustments to their lifestyle.

The New York Post reports that Posner has left her $8.3 million Miami mansion and a $3 million trust fund to her beloved pooches, including one named Conchita.

Posner's only living son, Carl, a small-time filmmaker, is disputing the will, filing a lawsuit to have it revoked and accusing his mother's aides of drugging her in a conspiracy to gain control over her considerable wealth. The Wall Street Journal reports:

Household aides, he claims, drugged his sick mother with pain medications and conspired to steal her assets by inducing her to change her will and trust arrangements in 2008. Others, including his mother's trust attorney, he alleges, used their influence to bend her wishes. Mr. Carr, who was bequeathed a relatively paltry $1 million in his mother's will, makes the claims in a lawsuit filed last week in probate court in Miami-Dade County.


Among Mr. Carr's claims is that the aides directed a "deeply disturbed" Ms. Posner to hire a publicist to promote Conchita as "one of the world's most spoiled dogs"--complete with a four-season wardrobe, full-time staff and diamond jewelry

Posner gave an interview in February of 2009 to the Broward and Palm Beach newspaper New Times in which she elaborates on her bizarre relationship with her chihuahua Conchita.

And why is she getting her own Range Rover? What color does she want?


We actually have made the decision not to get her the Range Rover. Instead, I got a new car and gave her the Escalade. She, along with her two sisters, gets driven in it to and from their weekly puppy spa appointment, where they get manis and pedis. The Escalade is gold.


Posner was also close to launching a fashion line that seems designed only with her in mind.

In addition to taking care of Conchita, and your philanthropic causes, do you have any pursuits such as business ventures or other projects?


I am very close to launching my match-your-pet company that will allow mommy and puppy to share the same outfits. All items will be hand-sewn and made to order.


To be fair, her dogs were not the sole beneficiaries of her will. Several bodyguards and aides received large sums of money, as well as the right to live rent-free in her mansion. Provided they care for the dogs, of course.

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03:50 PM on 06/21/2010
The son is saying his mother was controlled and kept isolated by her staff...which could well be true. But why is he only addressing this issue now that she's gone, rather than when she was alive? It would make his case look better if he had tried to legally intercede before.

Anyone can report elder abuse, and there's many, many grown children who have their parents' capacity evaluated, for their own safety. You can petition the court to have it done, in many states.
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12:03 PM on 06/21/2010
I used to work for this family....in an accounting office that managed Gail's father's (Victor Posner) personal accounts as well as his various real estate, RC Cola and Arby's investments....I can attest that there was definitely a streak of mental illness that ran through that very large and very dysfunctional family. wow. Gail in particular was one of the most "eccentric" of all of the kids and grandkids and girlfriends. wow. RIP though....
11:46 AM on 07/09/2010
Big time mental illness, I worked in the Bal Harbour shops since 1981 and I met her back around 1990 and she was not a nice person to be around. She always looked at people like they were a piece of sh....tt. And it's true what her son said, she thought in her mind, she was a movie star. Far from it!
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12:54 PM on 07/09/2010
yes....on my first day of work they told me "if a woman (Gail) calls your line and curses at you and tells you that you're fired...don't worry, you're not fired." LOL! The office that I was in also handled the individual monthly "allowances" of all of the family...kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, wives, girlfriends...they were all on the "payroll"...and they all went through their money quick and would call and ask for more...Gail would call around from desk to desk and if you couldn't "help" her...she would go off. I felt so bad for that family. They were so wealthy....but none of them happy.
09:25 AM on 06/21/2010
I imagine dogs don't have to pay inheritance tax. Lucky for them.
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Oscar1226
08:43 AM on 06/21/2010
Bow,wow,woof,woof can I get my share too?
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munki
Global to Local now Local to Global
08:16 PM on 06/20/2010
The beneficiary reform!
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WorldisMorphing
Jaded Iconoclast ...
05:53 PM on 06/20/2010
Sick sick world we live in...
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keysbreezin
My micro-bio is still empty
05:31 PM on 06/20/2010
If I was the pooch I'd sue. Sue her for wasting all that money on the worst nose job and face job EVER!
05:09 AM on 06/20/2010
When we take in a dog whose elderly owner has passed away, we actually find quite often that the owner seemed to have adored their dogs more than their children. It's not an uncommon phenomenon

Deeanna
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03:38 AM on 06/19/2010
How did her face get so horribly disfigured?

Plastic surgery gone very, very wrong.
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barrycourage
You have an absolute right to my opinion
03:03 AM on 06/19/2010
Which is the one who truly rhymes with rich--Gail or Conchita?
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RonRutherford
02:50 AM on 06/19/2010
Just when you think you've heard it all...

What a disgusting human being. I've never heard of her 'til now, but I won't be ashamed to say I'm glad she's gone. Anyone who would do such a thing is not only id.iotic, they clearly have no empathy for those who could actually use that money.

Disgusting........

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12:52 AM on 06/19/2010
If I were those dogs, I'd hire a food taster and get myself a sly old fox for an attorney.
11:06 PM on 06/18/2010
Was her dog wearing a...wig?
10:07 PM on 06/18/2010
Chosen Pooches.
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MiraMcB
Stop whining! You lost!
09:56 PM on 06/18/2010
Well, good for her and good for the dogs! Why not? It's her money and her dogs. Everyone is always so hell bent to tell other people how to spend their money. MYOB. You weren't in the will either. Get over it.
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44jupiter
Okay, where's the damn ice?
12:23 AM on 06/19/2010
Yeah, screw the hungry children! Let's all leave our life savings to our pets!
12:53 AM on 06/19/2010
PITA allert...
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04:07 PM on 06/20/2010
IDIOT!!! If people cared as much for each other as we did pets, the world would be great...unfortunately most people think like you!