Worth Over $100 Million, She Asked If She Could Buy a Few DRESSES: Brooke Astor

Worth Over $100 Million, She Asked If She Could Buy a Few DRESSES: Brooke Astor For forty years, New York treated Brooke Astor as its own aristocrat. She gave away nearly two hundred million dollars, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and died at her country house at one hundred five. But the last chapter of her life was written in a Manhattan courtroom, about her only child. Her will was amended three times in eleven weeks, when she was one hundred one and diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Her grandson went to court against his own father. Her butler remembered her asking whether she could buy a few dresses. In 2009 a jury convicted her son, Anthony Marshall, on fourteen of sixteen counts. On one charge, the one everyone remembers, he was acquitted. It all started with a gap on a library wall. Chapters: 00:00 — The painting on the library wall 02:51 — ACT I — THE RISE 07:29 — ACT II — THE FACADE 12:17 — ACT III — THE CRACK 18:14 — ACT IV — THE RECKONING 22:50 — ACT V — THE AFTERMATH Source Material Visual material used in this production is obtained from publicly accessible archives, including Wikimedia Commons and Europeana. Copyright & Fair Use Notice This channel incorporates copyrighted material under the principles of Fair Use as recognized by U.S. law. Under Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act, certain uses of copyrighted works such as for analysis, commentary, educational purposes, research, and reporting are permitted without prior authorization from the copyright holder. Sources Brooke Astor, biography and legal proceedings — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_... Jury: Brooke Astor's son guilty of looting estate (NBC News, 2009) — https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33228570 Court filing claims Brooke Astor lives in squalor (NBC News, 2006) — https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14046911 A.G. Schneiderman obtains settlement in Brooke Astor estate matter (2012) — https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2012/... Met Museum gets $20M from Astor estate but Childe Hassam painting still missing (Hyperallergic) — https://hyperallergic.com/met-museum-... #documentary #history #oldmoney #BrookeAstor