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WALTER (Cronkite) JILT$ HIS GAL PAL -- Leaves Her Zilch as Aides, Kin Get Big Bucks
New York Post ^ | August 23, 2009 | James Fanelli

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cronkite; cronkitewill; simon
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To: Zakeet
Cronkite's daughter Nancy said her father was "very generous" to Simon while alive, but never intended to put her in his will.

"It was about my mother [Betsy]," Nancy Cronkite said. "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.' "

Not a fan of Mr. Cronkite, but it seemed Ms. Simon knew the score. And, the children deserve his estate.

21 posted on 08/23/2009 4:34:28 PM PDT by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

Now I am wondering if he did give her some money while he was alive so he would not mess up his estate plans.


22 posted on 08/23/2009 4:34:37 PM PDT by omega4179 ( -14 and cratering.)
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To: Zakeet
He made up his will several years ago. He left his estate to his children. She will do the same with her estate. She is a widow and he a widower. He left things intact. Big deal.

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.

23 posted on 08/23/2009 4:39:27 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: Zakeet

http://images.broadwayworld.com/upload/17927/New%20Folder/c14.jpg

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.


24 posted on 08/23/2009 4:42:44 PM PDT by kcvl
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25 posted on 08/23/2009 4:44:08 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Zakeet

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.


26 posted on 08/23/2009 4:44:28 PM PDT by mohresearcher
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To: pennboricua

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.’ “)


27 posted on 08/23/2009 4:44:33 PM PDT by KarenMarie (NEVER believe anything coming out of DC until it's been denied.)
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To: Zakeet

Love amongst the ruins!

This lady looks like she has plenty of her own moolah.


28 posted on 08/23/2009 4:44:36 PM PDT by Palladin (Obamacare=Emanuelcare=Mengelecare!)
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To: Zakeet

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.


29 posted on 08/23/2009 4:48:06 PM PDT by Clara Lou (Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.)
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To: Zakeet

Cronkite took the Clintons on his boat during the former First Family's vacation on Martha's Vineyard on Aug. 25, 1998

30 posted on 08/23/2009 4:52:30 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Zakeet

Joanna, it was only sex.


31 posted on 08/23/2009 4:53:26 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: omega4179

It’s really humorous if she was expecting anything from Uncle Walter. The American people never caught on, and apparently never did she.


32 posted on 08/23/2009 4:55:35 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Palladin

Born in New York, Joanna Simon is the daughter of Richard L. Simon, co-founder of book publishers Simon & Schuster,


33 posted on 08/23/2009 4:56:43 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: mohresearcher
it was largely pacified because most of the Viet Cong who participated in Tet 1968 were killed.
We killed every damned one 'em during TET - we wiped them off the face of the battlefield for years.
There wasn't much left of the NVA either.
Walter "we lost the war" Cronkite can kiss my Marine Corps green @ss.
(P.S. Glad you made it back.)
34 posted on 08/23/2009 4:58:30 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: kcvl

People in MA believe in Cronkite and Clinton and always will.


35 posted on 08/23/2009 4:59:29 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Zakeet

She’s from a wealthy family and has had several successful careers.

Why should his three children share anything with her?


36 posted on 08/23/2009 5:10:07 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Zakeet

Oh, but he loved people.


37 posted on 08/23/2009 5:10:13 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: taillightchaser
“He did the right thing this time. His kids should get the moola.”

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.

38 posted on 08/23/2009 5:10:43 PM PDT by olrtex
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To: taillightchaser
“He did the right thing this time. His kids should get the moola.”

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.

39 posted on 08/23/2009 5:10:56 PM PDT by olrtex
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To: Zakeet

Why should he unless she was also his nursemaid?


40 posted on 08/23/2009 5:23:53 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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