To my surprise THE Ave readers really like to read the snark and spite of my family fight. There have been over three thousand hits over the two days since I began posting the emails!
So what is going on? Has the story of our squabbles gone viral? Has someone launched an attack using a site that just generates useless clicks??
I do not know but, in case any of you are actual people and want to read about the fight, you may want to look at the following tags. Of course any responses from Hugh, Bill Stephanie or Janet will be posted here on THE Ave under the tag Family Feud. Emails will be posted either on line or as comments.
Buchenwald: This matter is now in court. After my father’s death, a friend of mine and I were looking through my Dad’s papers and discovered a large trove of pictures … not just prints but negatives and contact sheets. These were pictures my Dad had made before General Patton’s official liberation of Buchenwald. American soldiers, including the medical company my Dad commanded, entered the camp to give aid to the Nazi victims. Since then there has been a fight because I believe these belong to the public and should be made available via a museum or university. My brother and sister have obstructed this effort for seven years. Despite a binding agreement we signed three years ago where he took an additional $120,000 from the estate, my brother Hugh has threatened to “see the pictures rot.”
Estate: My brother and a friend of his, Martin Miasserian, were the co executors of my Dad’s will. The will was very simple … distributing his assets to the three siblings and three grandchildren. My Dad also left Betty, his wife of almost 30 years and our stepmother, the right to live in the house and enjoy its contents as long as she chose to do so. Unfortunately, shortly after the death my brother and sister began a campaign of “psychological warfare” against Betty and her daughter. I gather my siblings had resented Betty and her daughter. This war was quite vicious with threats of law suits and charges of theft. I became involved when I refused to join this fight. During the fight Hugh and Martin fired the estate attorney chosen by my father and hired a highly litigious corporate law firm. Hugh and Martin also took $90,000 for their own services, an act that was in violation of Massachusetts law. The litigators spent several hundred thousand dollars on the effort to force Betty to leave.