WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The long dispute over the estate of socialite philanthropist Brooke Astor ended Wednesday with a settlement that frees $100...
Ralph Gardner Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
If come next Monday Tony Marshall, Brooke Astor's son, is sentenced to prison for stealing from his mother, he'll have as many as 25 years to contemplate where things went so wrong.
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Signs of stress and a struggle to reach a verdict emerged Monday among jurors in the five-month-long criminal trial over philanthropi...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The 85-year-old son of philanthropist Brooke Astor was sentenced Monday to as many as three years in prison for exploiting her mental...
The Guardian | Hadley Freeman | Posted 05.25.2011
It's not that Americans are obsessed with people with money, exactly; it's that they are obsessed with how those people made that money and, more impo...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Philanthropist Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son can stay out of prison while he appeals his conviction for looting his mother's fortune...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son has turned to friends in high places – including Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker – to help hi...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Anthony Marshall has had a life of privilege and pain as philanthropist Brooke Astor's only child. Born into wealth, he joined the M...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son was convicted Thursday of exploiting his philanthropist mother's failing mind and helping himself to h...
Ralph Gardner Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
One thing is for certain: In her prime, Brooke Astor would have redeemed the occasion with her spirit and wit. There was no redemption to be found throughout the trial of her son, and it's final day was no different.
Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 05.25.2011
Bernie Madoff is only one of the white-collar offenders exposed this year for bilking the country out of millions. Whether stealing from dying family...
New York Post | Posted 05.25.2011
The trial against Brooke Astor's son took another unexpected twist this morning when her allegedly swindling son Tony Marshall collapsed inside a cour...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Manhattan trial of Brooke Astor's son has been postponed because he is sick. A defense attorney said outside court Tuesday that ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The wife of Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, says her husband suffered a mild stroke two weeks ago. Charlene Marshall disclosed...
AP | SAMUEL MAULL | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Brooke Astor's son claimed she asked him in 2003 whether he wanted all her $198 million fortune, but the aged philanthropist didn't m...
AP | SAMUEL MAULL | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Brooke Astor's son claimed she asked him in 2003 whether he wanted all her $198 million fortune, but the aged philanthropist didn't m...
bloomberg.com | Katya Kazakina | Posted 05.25.2011
May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Brooke Astor, who wore beautiful clothes and expensive jewels into her 100s, walked around with nothing on in her mansion at Cov...
New York Daily News | Posted 05.25.2011
Anthony Marshall's son urged his dad to cut a deal with prosecutors and end a lurid trial that has exposed the Astor family's dirty secrets. ...
New York Post | Laura Italiano | Posted 05.25.2011
How's this for a faux pas? Brooke Astor, noted philanthropist, age 97, reminding Camilla Parker Bowles, during a toast at a crowded gathering, that Pa...
Ralph Gardner Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
The lovely, blond Naomi Dunn Packard-Koot seemed almost too eager to tell the jury everything she knew, heard, or overheard that cast the Marshalls in a negative light.
editorial.huffingtonpost.com | Andrea Peyser | Posted 05.25.2011
ANTHONY MARSHALL has survived the Battle of Iwo Jima and his marriage to "Miss Piggy" Charlene and even outlived his beautiful, befuddled, 105-year-ol...
Michael Gross | Posted 05.25.2011
There may be two sides to every story, but one side hijacked the Astor narrative almost three years ago and ever since, sympathy for Anthony Marshall and his wife has been in acutely short supply.
New York Post | Laura Italiano | Posted 05.25.2011
Charlene Marshall, unindicted villainess of the sensational Brooke Astor trial, broke down in tears as she walked up the courthouse steps yesterday to...
New York Post | Laura Italiano | Posted 05.25.2011
By the year 2000, in the throes of early-stage Alzheimer's, philanthropist Brooke Astor thought her son was out to get her. "You only want to come ...
New York Post | Posted 05.25.2011
You can almost smell the dog urine on the infamous Blue Room couch. ...
AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 05.28.2012