Postscript: The Astor Trial - The New Old Age Blog - NYTimes.com

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A judge has sentenced Anthony D. Marshall, only child of the late philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor, to one to three years in prison for looting his mother’s fortune as she slipped into the confusion of Alzheimer’s disease.

“What would she say if she were here?” Justice A. Kirke Bartley Jr. demanded in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Mrs. Astor died at age 105 in 2007. “Would she blanch at the spectacle?”

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