WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The long dispute over the estate of socialite philanthropist Brooke Astor ended Wednesday with a settlement that frees $100...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — A jury trying to decide whether Brooke Astor's son and lawyer looted the socialite's estate resumed its deliberation Tuesday, one day...
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.
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...
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.
The Observer | Reid Pillifant | Posted 05.25.2011
"I like it better the other way," legendary interviewer Barbara Walters said after spending two hours answering questions on Thursday afternoon, May 2...
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. ...
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.
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
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 | Laura Italiano | Posted 05.25.2011
Philanthropist Brooke Astor hated her daughter-in-law so much that she told her doctor she would rather spend Christmas with her two dogs over "that b...
New York Post | Laura Italiano | Posted 05.25.2011
TO AVENGE the late Brooke Astor, Manhattan prosecutors must first destroy her privacy -- throwing open the attic doors to reveal the most cringe-induc...
Ralph Gardner Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
If Marshall's attorney was to be believed, Brooke Astor's decades of good works -- her gift for using her money, talent and charm to seed and leverage projects great and small -- was but a career move.
New York Post | Posted 05.25.2011
You can almost smell the dog urine on the infamous Blue Room couch. ...
Ralph Gardner Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
There's something almost quaint about the government taking the time and resources to prosecute a case that hearkens back to a more genteel era of fine silver, fresh flowers, and Hudson River views.
New York Post | Laura Italiano | Posted 05.25.2011
With his cane, unsteady gait, nice suits and cortege of lawyers and news photographers, Anthony Marshall -- the accused thieving son of philanthropist...
New York Post | Dareh Gregorian | Posted 05.25.2011
Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, is finally getting his long-awaited day in court to battle charges that he swindled millions from his beloved ph...
AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 05.28.2012