NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Changes to the will of New York social matriarch Brooke Astor were made of her own accord, says her son, indicating he would fight efforts to challenge them.
Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, said the changes to the will -- in which his control over her $130 million fortune increased -- were "what my mother wanted done," the New York Post reported Wednesday.
People close to Astor, who died Tuesday at age 105, said they think she was not mentally capable to sign off on changes made in 2003 and 2004.
A source told the Post Annette de la Renta, Astor's personal-needs guardian, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, her financial guardian, could file papers this week asking to be named administrators of Astor's estate.
One of the attorneys Marshall allegedly involved with her estate planning and the last of the codicils was Francis Morrissey, who once was suspended for using a client's funds and has been accused of using "undue influence" on elderly clients.
Lawyers for JPMorgan Chase charge Astor's signature on the third codicil was forged, a claim being investigated by the New York District Attorney's Office.
