Brooke Astor

American Obsession With Rich Explains Bloomberg: Guardian

The Guardian | Hadley Freeman | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York


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...

Brooke Astor Verdict: Anthony Marshall GUILTY; Faces At Least A Year In Jail

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.09.2009 | New York


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...

Brooke Astor Trial: Juror Complains Of Feeling Threatened

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York


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...

Brooke Astor Trial: Judge Tells Jury To Keep Deliberating In Anthony Marshall Case

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York


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...

Brooke Astor's Will -- Does Mother Know Best, or Did Mother Get Bested?

Herb Nass | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York


Herb Nass

Regardless of the final verdict in the Astor case, estate matters should be left in the bailiwick of probate or surrogate's courts which have expertise in those type of matters.

Museum Of The City Of New York Releases List Of 400 Top New Yorkers In History

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York


In honor of Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage across the Atlantic, the Museum of the City of New York came up with a list of 400 notable and legendary New Yo...

Astor Trial Jury Forewoman Attacked On Subway

New York Daily News | Melissa Grace | Posted 09.12.2009 | New York


The Astor trial took a bizarre twist Tuesday when it was revealed the jury forewoman was attacked by a loon wielding an 8-inch knife on a northbound N...

That's the Way It Was

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 08.18.2009 | Media


B. Jeffrey Madoff

I wanted my kids to watch a few examples of what the news was like when I was their age so I put on the clip of Cronkite's coverage of the Kennedy assassination. "Wow", my son said. "That was so quiet and so powerful."

ANTHONY MARSHALL COLLAPSES In Courthouse Bathroom During Trial

New York Post | Posted 08.08.2009 | New York


The trial against Brooke Astor's son took another unexpected twist this morning when her allegedly swindling son Tony Marshall collapsed inside a cour...

Brooke Astor Trial: Alternate Juror Thinks Mrs. Astor '"Knew What She Was Doing'

New York Times | JOHN ELIGON | Posted 08.08.2009 | New York


A 73-year-old man who spent nearly 10 weeks as an alternate juror in the trial of Brooke Astor's son before being removed from the jury last week said...

Brooke Astor Trial Postponed

AP | Posted 08.07.2009 | New York


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 ...

The People vs. Anthony Marshall and Francis Morrissey - The Help Strikes Back

Ralph Gardner Jr. | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living


Ralph Gardner Jr.

Anthony Marshall, Brooke Astor's son, is accused of swindling his mother's estate and Francis Morrissey of helping him do so by forging her signature on a codicil to her will.

Brooke Astor Took 2 Dozen Medications Daily: Court Papers

nydailynews.com | Melissa Grace and Corky Siemaszko | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York


A 2003 list compiled by family doctors revealed that socialite Brooke Astor took two dozen pills every day, and that was before she broke her hip....

Brooke Astor Case Is In The Wrong Court

Tom Baer | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York


Tom Baer

ssuming Anthony Marshall caused his mother to do things in will amendments that she had no intention of doing, the proper remedy is to see to it that he gets no part of her estate. It is in the civil courts that this case belongs.

Astor Trial: Brooke Was Ironic In Money Talks With Son

AP | SAMUEL MAULL | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business


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...

Astor Trial: Brooke Was Being Ironic In Money Talks With Son

AP | SAMUEL MAULL | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business


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...

Barbara Walters Quizzed At Brooke Astor Trial

The Observer | Reid Pillifant | Posted 06.22.2009 | Local


"I like it better the other way," legendary interviewer Barbara Walters said after spending two hours answering questions on Thursday afternoon, May 2...

Henry Kissinger Describes Brooke Astor's Decline

AP | SAMUEL MAULL | Posted 06.21.2009 | Local


NEW YORK — Television personality Barbara Walters and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger testified Thursday that in her final years socia...

Astor Trial: Brooke Walked Naked, Offered Paintings As Gifts

bloomberg.com | Katya Kazakina | Posted 06.21.2009 | Business


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...

Anthony Marshall's Son Urges Dad To Cut Deal To End Brooke Astor Trial

New York Daily News | Posted 06.20.2009 | Local


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. ...

Anthony Marshall's Sons Make Him Cry

New York Post | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business


He hunched forward at the defense table. He held his forehead in his trembling right hand. During a break, he sat on a wooden hallway bench, wiping hi...

Anthony Marshall Weeps At Brooke Astor Trial

New York Post | Posted 06.19.2009 | Local


Anthony Marshall, accused swindling son of philanthropist Brooke Astor, watched his own son testify against him in a Manhattan courtroom, and the expe...

Brooke Astor: Camilla Parker Bowles Mistress Diss

New York Post | Laura Italiano | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business


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...

Inside the Astor Trial: The Babe Witness

Ralph Gardner Jr. | Posted 06.18.2009 | Entertainment


Ralph Gardner Jr.

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.

Anthony Marshall Collapses On Way Into Trial

editorial.huffingtonpost.com | Andrea Peyser | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business


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...