Anthony Marshall's widow will inherit the remainder of his family's riches after he cut both of his sons out of his will for helping send him to prison, it has emerged.
Charlene Marshall and her three children are set to inherit an estimated $14.5 million that once belonged to her mother-in-law, socialite and millionaire Brooke Astor, the New York Post reported
Astor, who passed away in 2007 at the age of 105, had contemptuously referred to his son's third wife as 'Miss Piggy' and 'that b****'.
The details of the will were revealed by the Post more than nine months after the death of Anthony Marshall. He passed away on November 30, 2014 at the age of 90, a little over a year after he was sent to prison for swindling his mother out of millions as she suffered from Alzheimer's.
Heir: Anthony Marshall, pictured with his mother Brooke Astor (center) in 2002, has left her fortune to his third wife Charlene (right) in his will. He passed away last November at the age of 90
His wife announced his death in the New York Times in a cryptic obituary that failed to mention his mother or his only children, Philip and Alec, who testified against him in the trial in 2009.
His six-page will explicitly leaves out the men, who were his children with his first wife.
'I have made no provisions here under for my sons... nor for their children,' he wrote in the will.
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ShareInstead it insists all the money must go to his third wife.
His jewelry, furniture, books, artwork, cars and 'any such property which I received from my mother, Brooke Russell Astor, either by lifetime gift or inheritance' must go to Charlene, he wrote.
He also left the 69-year-old widow an unspecified amount in a trust fund, the Post reported.
And Marshall instructed that once Charlene dies, her children - his three step-children - should get her inheritance.
Charlene Marshall filed the will in Manhattan Surrogate's Court on Tuesday, the Post reported.
United front: Marshall, pictured in 2007, left everything to his wife and her three children - his stepchildren
By his side: Marshall's wife pushes Anthony to court for his sentencing in 2013, when he began a jail sentence for defrauding his Alzheimer's-stricken mother. He only served two months before he was paroled
Cut out: The will indicates that his twin sons, Alec (left) and Philip (right) should receive nothing. The men, pictured in court with the assistant district attorney (center) in 2009, testified against their father at his trial
Her late husband's sons will be able to contest it in Surrogate's Court on July 29.
Charlene and Anthony Marshall owned a Manhattan home as well as a waterfront property in Maine even though Astor had told her grandson Philip that she wanted to leave him the Maine property when he died.
Anthony, her son with her first husband, was her only child. Her wealth came from her third husband, real-estate and fur heir Vincent Astor.
Marshall, a decorated World War II veteran who later became a diplomat and Broadway producer, married Charlene in 1992. They met in a small Maine town when she was married to a local minister.
He was convicted in October 2009 of exploiting his mother's dementia to loot her $200 million fortune in the final years of her life.
Prosecutors said that after her Alzheimer's diagnosis, he bought himself lavish gifts, including a $920,000 yacht, with her money.
Glamorous: Brooke Astor (left in 2001 and right in 1991) had inherited her fortune from her third husband, multi-millionaire and philanthropist Vincent Astor. Her son Anthony was from her first marriage
He also took valuable artwork off her walls and engineered changes to her will that gave him control of most of her estate, including millions previously earmarked for her favorite charities.
Philip brought a guardianship case against his father in 2006. The allegations of physical neglect were never substantiated, but they led to the criminal case over Astor's finances and Marshall was found guilty of grand larceny and scheming to defraud.
He was sentenced to one to three years in prison - but years of appeals and legal wrangling off his sentence for years and he eventually started serving time in June 2013.
He was granted medical parole just two months later due to ill health.
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