Posted on 08/23/2009 4:07:58 PM PDT by Zakeet
Edited on 08/23/2009 4:15:52 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
While former opera singer Joanna Simon was Walter Cronkite's constant companion in the last four years of his life, summering in Martha's Vineyard and yachting off the East Coast with the legendary TV anchor, he didn't leave her a cent when he died last month.
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Not a fan of Mr. Cronkite, but it seemed Ms. Simon knew the score. And, the children deserve his estate.
Now I am wondering if he did give her some money while he was alive so he would not mess up his estate plans.
That's what Charles Kuralt's widow thought.Check the decision of the Montana Supreme Court in the Kuralt case and then tell me it couldn't happen to Comrade Cronkite's heirs.
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Joanna Simon (born October 20, 1940) is a distinguished American mezzo-soprano and currently a Manhattan based real estate broker. She was born in New York and is the sister of rock musicians Carly and Lucy Simon.
Born in New York, Joanna Simon is the daughter of Richard L. Simon, co-founder of book publishers Simon & Schuster, Inc. and Andrea Heinemann Simon, a civil rights activist and singer.
Joanna Simon was married to the late Gerald Walker (April 16, 1928 – February 19, 2004), a former articles editor for The New York Times Magazine and author of the book Cruising, published in 1970 by Stein and Day, which describes a series of crimes against gay men in New York City.
Simon also enjoyed a career as an Emmy Award-winning Arts Correspondent with the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour from 1986-1992.
Her current career sees her based in Manhattan as Vice President of the Fox Residential Group, real estate brokers, a company which she joined in 1998.
Would you have expected anything different from this far-leftist fraud? I remember when he stated with absolute certainty that the Vietnam war was lost in 1968.
I served in Vietnam from 1969-70 and in the area from Saigon to the Mekong Delta, it was largely pacified because most of the Viet Cong who participated in Tet 1968 were killed.
Uncle Walt also was all for green energy conservation except for wind turbines on Cape Code. A worthless fraud and good riddance that he is not around to adore BP Plenty.
Revenge is, indeed, sweet!
J. Simon should have insisted on marriage if she wanted to ensure that she was protected from being left ‘high and dry’. She might not even care about money.
More than that, however, would be to do anything it takes to wipe those words from the daughter’s mouth. What a crappy thing to say in public, true or not. There was no reason to embarrass J. Simon like that... if what she claims was true, which I doubt. Nancy is absolutely uncouth.
(Cronkite’s daughter Nancy said her father was “very generous” to Simon while alive, but never intended to put her in his will. Dad said to us, ‘I don’t want to marry Joanna out of respect for your mother, and I don’t want to share my estate with her.’ “)
Love amongst the ruins!
This lady looks like she has plenty of her own moolah.
Why should Cronkite have left her anything? I know several older couples who are (or did) pair up. His assets will go to his heirs, her assets will go to her heirs. I can’t see that Cronkite did anything differently. It’s what I’d do.
Cronkite took the Clintons on his boat during the former First Family's vacation on Martha's Vineyard on Aug. 25, 1998
Joanna, it was only sex.
It’s really humorous if she was expecting anything from Uncle Walter. The American people never caught on, and apparently never did she.
Born in New York, Joanna Simon is the daughter of Richard L. Simon, co-founder of book publishers Simon & Schuster,
People in MA believe in Cronkite and Clinton and always will.
She’s from a wealthy family and has had several successful careers.
Why should his three children share anything with her?
Oh, but he loved people.
His kids “should” get the moola only because that is what he wanted. If no one was dependent on him and he made no promises, then he "should" have done what the hell ever he wanted with his estate. If he wanted to leave the money to a three-toed sloth from Petticoat Junction or a ring-tailed mongoose from Lower Slobovia, that is what he “should” "should" have done.
His kids “should” get the moola only because that is what he wanted. If no one was dependent on him and he made no promises, then he "should" have done what the hell ever he wanted with his estate. If he wanted to leave the money to a three-toed sloth from Petticoat Junction or a ring-tailed mongoose from Lower Slobovia, that is what he “should” "should" have done.
Why should he unless she was also his nursemaid?
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