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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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.
NEW YORK, April 16 (UPI) -- The New York duplex where the late socialite Brooke Astor lived for half a century is to go up for sale for $46 million, a broker from the Corcoran Group said.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- The son of New York socialite Brooke Astor has enlisted a pretender to the Romanian throne in an effort to reach a key witness in his will-conspiracy case.
