The Battle for Mrs. Astor.

ASTOR, Brooke, 1902-2007; MARSHALL, Anthony D., 1924-2014; ABUSE of older people; MORRISSEY, Francis X., 1910-2008; GILBERT, Charlene

The article is about Brooke Astor, a former philanthropist, who died in March, 2007 when she was 105 years old. Beginning in the mid 1990s she began suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and her son, Anthony D. Marshall and his lawyer, Francis X. Morrissey, allegedly began funneling money out of of her accounts for themselves. Some of the money went to Charlene Gilbert, who was briefly married to Marshall. It became a well-known case of elder abuse.