The New York Times published an interesting piece yesterday by Charles V. Bagli, Family Feud Over Estate Nears an End After 25 Years.
The article begins:
For nearly 30 years, Evelyn and Diana Sakow believed that their father, a small-time real estate broker and developer from the Bronx, had died broke and without a will in 1956. They worked their way through college, becoming public school teachers.
They lived quiet, uneventful lives — until 1983. That’s when Diana said she uncovered a secret while taking a night course in real estate: Not only had her father, Max, owned as many as 100 properties in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan at the time of his death, but he had left a handwritten will leaving the sisters a portion of his estate.
The revelation turned into a betrayal of biblical proportions, after the two sisters learned that their older brother, Walter, with the acquiescence of their mother, had built a real estate empire using their father’s legacy, court records and interviews show.
Read the rest of the story here.
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