Utterly addled by Alzheimer’s, philanthropist Brooke Astor couldn’t remember, at times, who her own son was. Worth $180 million, she mistakenly feared she was broke and failed her neurologists’ simplest of memory tests.
All these problems meant that she was incompetent to sign amendments to her will, noted estates lawyer Alexander Forger testified yesterday in the ongoing Astor-swindle trial.
Prosecutors have charged Astor’s only child, Anthony Marshall, with strong-arming his ailing mother into signing over to him more than $60 million.