SOCIALITE BROOKE ASTOR FUNERAL SERVICE IN NEW YORK
Actress Whoopie Goldberg (C) leaves funeral services for socialite Brooke Astor at Saint Thomas Church in New York on August 17, 2007. Ms. Astor died at the age of 105. (UPI Photo/Ezio Petersen)
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UPI Almanac for Friday, March 30, 2012.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., March 28 (UPI) -- The long battle over the estate of New York socialite and philanthropist Brooke Astor ended with a settlement Wednesday, her grandson said.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The late Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son was sentenced in New York to three years in prison Monday for trying to defraud her estate of millions of dollars.
NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The son of the late U.S. philanthropist Brooke Astor will seek the dismissal of his conviction for grand larceny, sources say.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Anthony D. Marshall, the son of Brooke Astor, was convicted Thursday of stealing from the ailing New York society matriarch before she died, the court revealed.
NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Brooke Astor's son was a "morally depraved" man who tricked his Alzheimer's-plagued mother into changing her will to get millions, a New York prosecutor said.
NEW YORK, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Anthony Marshall's lawyers are presenting his defense against charges he stole millions from his mother, New York philanthropist Brooke Astor, before she died.
NEW YORK, July 1 (UPI) -- A former maid of U.S. socialite Brooke Astor's says she suspects her late employer did not actually sign a document that benefits her son, Anthony Marshall.
NEW YORK, May 13 (UPI) -- Former New York socialite Brooke Astor's secretary won't get to tell a jury potentially damaging second-hand testimony about Astor's son, a judge ruled.
NEW YORK, March 30 (UPI) -- Prosecutors say the trial of the late philanthropist Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, will focus on the New York socialite's mental state prior to death.
