A former driver for the late Hudson News magnate Robert Cohen testi💎fied Wednesday that his boss willfully altered a will that would eventually squeeze out his granddaughter Samantha Perelman, daughter of ♔Revlon mogul Ronald Perelman.
David Merritt said that he held Cohen’s hand as he sig🀅ned a 2007 amendment that promised his Palm Beach estate to his son James Cohen, if Robert’s daughter, gossip columni🙈st Claudia Cohen, Samantha’s mother, died first.
Samantha, 23, is suing James Cohen in New Jersey state court, claiming he coerced his ailing and elderly father into cutting her out of a $600♕ million inheritance after Claudia Cohen died of cancer in 2007.
Samantha’s attorneys argue that her grandfather was incapacitated by Parkinson’s disease and other infirmities ♔to the point that h💯e couldn’t comprehend the changes he was making.
Merritt said his e💮lderly boss still kept watch over his business empire and scrutinized sales receipts with a magnifying glass each night.