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...Johnson children charge that their stepmother "bullied and terrorized" their father, once even slapping his face. She turned his Florida estate into a gilded isolation booth, they complain, replacing the English-speaking help with Poles. They further maintain that she plotted to siphon off his wealth with the help of her friend Nina Zagat, a Yale Law graduate and Wall Street attorney who drew up the last sequence of wills. As co-executor and trustee of the estate, she stands to make as much as $10 million in commissions and fees. In the contested will, five of Johnson's children...
...part, Barbara Johnson maintains that those provisions fully reflected Johnson Sr.'s oft-expressed intentions. She notes that in 1944 he established trust funds for his children that, if left untouched, would be valued at $110 million each. Despite nibbling at the principal, even the poorest of the Johnson offspring is still worth at least $23 million. The elder Johnson had informed them in a long succession of previous wills that he would not leave them anything more. One reason, says Barbara, is that the old man was offended by their penchant for scandal. For example, there was J. Seward...
During the first days of the trial, Attorney-Executor Zagat testified that Johnson was of sound mind even when he signed the last of the wills, just 39 days before his death. From the time of his marriage in 1971, when he was 76 and his bride was 34, Johnson made 22 wills or major modifications that gave his wife ever greater shares of his estate. His final will was the fourth drafted in eight weeks. By then, say the children, their father was weakened, senile and fully in his wife's clutches. J. Seward Jr., 55, a sculptor...
...squabbling, neither Barbara Johnson nor the children are likely to be called to the stand. Some observers wonder what the children have to gain in their challenge, since dozens of the preceding wills also slighted them. They claim their fight will benefit their father's philanthropic interests, which were dramatically undercut only in the last will. But the speculation is that they really expect a settlement offer to forestall years of legal delays. Meanwhile, Judge Lambert has asked for the jury's patience as they examine this complex test of wills, in which "we are all working hard." Shoveling dirt...
...against CBS in Chicago is an example. Co-Anchorman Harry Porterfield left CBS for a more lucrative position. He was not forced out. And by claiming Jonathan Rodgers was hired as the new manager of WBBM because of his color, Jackson undercuts an achievement by a black man. Brian Johnson New York City Wallace's Farewell...