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Philanthropist Brooke Astor Hospitalized
KYW (CBS News) ^
| 7/27/2006
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Posted on 07/27/2006 7:42:36 AM PDT by wjersey
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posted on
07/27/2006 7:42:37 AM PDT
by
wjersey
To: wjersey
Drudge had some articles posted about her today. Sad story. I guess her son just can't wait to inherit her money. Sick.
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posted on
07/27/2006 7:46:37 AM PDT
by
buffyt
(America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. Pres. George Bush)
To: buffyt
Related article here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672779/posts
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posted on
07/27/2006 7:55:49 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: wjersey
Poor thing, I hope they do not let her go "home" to her POS son. Her grandson did the right thing.
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posted on
07/27/2006 8:01:25 AM PDT
by
msnimje
(Uni-FAIL - UN peace keeping force in Lebanon has lived up to its name.)
To: wjersey
Annette and Brooke.
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posted on
07/27/2006 8:07:27 AM PDT
by
Cecily
To: Cecily
I wonder if she is related to the Astor family which went down on the Titanic. Born in 1902 she would have been a contemporary.
To: wjersey
Neglect is replacing a french chef with a cook? Neglect is replacing expensive cold creams with petroleum jelly-based to clean off the make up?
Oy vey gott! Gott im Himmel!
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posted on
07/27/2006 8:24:34 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: sully777
She is a millionaire who has been extremely generous to others. Who does her son think he is to downgrade his mother's style of living? Why shouldn't she have what she is used to in her remaining years? It isn't sonny boy's money yet.
There is also more to the neglect charges than what you have mocked.
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posted on
07/27/2006 8:31:03 AM PDT
by
Cecily
To: Cecily
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posted on
07/27/2006 8:55:06 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: Cecily
Perspective is a wonderful tool.
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posted on
07/27/2006 8:55:50 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: buffyt
>I guess her son just can't wait to inherit her money.
He's been living hand-to-mouth these past 82 years, you see.
< /sarcasm>
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posted on
07/27/2006 8:58:20 AM PDT
by
Darnright
(http://www.irey.com/)
To: sully777
Yes, everything is relative. So tell me again why a millionaire shouldn't have all that she has been used to in life just because her greedy son decides to pinch HER pennies?
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posted on
07/27/2006 9:08:50 AM PDT
by
Cecily
To: wjersey; Borges
Hi Borges, read your thread too. Thanks for posting the URL :)
82 yrs old could be a problem for someone to be an efficient guardian. Imo, this woman is being neglected, if the allegations are true. So what if she wants a French chef and expensive face creams? She's Brooke Astor and has lived to see 104 years on this earth. She should have heat/AC, a decent environment, and her blasted yap dogs on her lap. She deserves that, nice nightgowns, and whatever food is appropriate for her.
Don't know the grandson's true motivations. I have no reason to doubt Annette De La Renta's suitability as a personal guardian, or JP Morgan Chase, for the fiduciary responsibility for caring for Ms. Astor.
Hope everything turns out well for her...
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posted on
07/27/2006 9:41:29 AM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(If you don't understand the word "Illegal", then the public school system has failed you.)
To: Young Werther
Brooke Astor's father was at one time commandant of the Marine Corps. Vincent Astor was her third husband, and the son of the Colonel Astor who went down on the Titanic. After Vincent's death in 1959, Brooke devoted her time to supervising the trust that distributed the bulk of the Astor fortune to charity.
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posted on
07/27/2006 10:02:36 AM PDT
by
joylyn
To: wjersey
Prayers for Mrs. Astor. Hope she gets that business straightened out.
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posted on
07/27/2006 10:04:07 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
To: Young Werther
I wonder if she is related to the Astor family which went down on the Titanic. She married Vincent Astor who was the son of JJ Astor who went down on the Titanic. Vincent had a younger brother who was in utero on the Titanic. I believe (not sure) that Vincent (obviously a young boy) was not on the ship.
So Brooke never met her (third) father-in-law because he was lost at sea decades before she married into the Astor family.
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posted on
07/27/2006 10:05:59 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("He hits me, he cries, he runs to the court and sues me.")
To: joylyn
In the paper they said her motto was "Money is like horse manure and should be spread around".
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posted on
07/27/2006 10:07:20 AM PDT
by
geopyg
(If the carrot doesn't work, use the stick. Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
To: wjersey
What a tragic story. If true, the son sounds like a sadist.
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posted on
07/27/2006 10:15:30 AM PDT
by
Dante3
To: sully777
She is 104. At that age skin thins. The lighter *expensive* creams moisturize much better than petroleum jelly , given her age.
After spending her life eating well-cooked food, why should this old lady be subjected to pap and to foods like liver that are high in cholesterol?
And to go so far as to keep her from her dogs is just mean, cruel and without reason.
She has spent almost 40 years distributing the Astor trust to worthy causes. It isn't too much to expect her elderly son would allow her to continue to live as a human being.
It isn't as though her own personal $45M isn't going to outlast her or that the son is poverty stricken or even that he has much time left to spend the money. This is cruelty and the son has some sort of emotional agenda.
I am glad there are laws against elderly abuse. It can happen to anyone, rich or poor or in-between.
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posted on
07/27/2006 4:36:50 PM PDT
by
reformedliberal
("Eliminate the mullahs and Islam shall disappear in fifty years." Ayatollah Khomeini)
To: Young Werther
She was married to Vincent Astor, son of John Jacob Astor the IV....who went down with the Titanic.
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posted on
07/27/2006 6:18:41 PM PDT
by
Guenevere
(Israel, our friend and ally.....God bless her.)
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