WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The long dispute over the estate of socialite philanthropist Brooke Astor ended Wednesday with a settlement that frees $100...
AP | Posted 05.15.2012
NEW YORK — A New York auction of the late philanthropist Brooke Astor's personal items will include designer jewelry and a wide range of furnitu...
AP | Posted 01.31.2012
NEW YORK — Jewelry and artwork from the estate of philanthropist Brooke Astor will go on the auction block next year. Sotheby's announced this ...
Ed Koch | Posted 11.27.2011
I believe the recent vote in the 9th Congressional District in New York affected in a positive way the policy of the U.S. on the Mideast.
New York Real Estate News | Posted 05.25.2011
Brooke Astor's 14-room duplex at 778 Park Avenue, once listed for $46 million, is now in contract "in the high teens," sources told the Post. The apar...
Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011
This film received mixed reviews from other critics. I enjoyed it immensely, and think it is well worth seeing.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011
The property on which Chelsea Clinton will be wed has had a somewhat checkered career as part of an estate that was home to various Astors.
Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011
At this time of year, for those in the fashion industry, "going to the Met" has nothing to do with spending a lazy day in the galleries, admiring Byza...
Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011
The author was obviously trying to put the 2009 dinner in context with how previous years' affairs went. But he may have gotten a bit carried away in including quite so many characters, even as afterthoughts.
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.
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...
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 — The 85-year-old son of philanthropist Brooke Astor was sentenced Monday to as many as three years in prison for exploiting her mental...
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...
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...
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 — 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 — Signs of stress and a struggle to reach a verdict emerged Monday among jurors in the five-month-long criminal trial over philanthropi...
Herb Nass | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
New York Daily News | Melissa Grace | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.25.2011
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."
New York Times | JOHN ELIGON | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
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 | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 05.28.2012