New York, NY – Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York who died last month at age 88, left the majority of his estate to his sister.
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According to a will filed on Monday, Koch gave Pat Thaler and her husband $500,000 cash and all his personal belongings not earmarked elsewhere.
Koch also gave $100,000 to his longtime secretary and another $100,000 to the LaGuardia and Wagner Educational Fund to create a program bearing his name to promote public and government service. He also donated some photographs and memorabilia to the New-York Historical Society.
Koch’s brash, humor-tinged style came to personify the New York of the 1980s.
The Democratic mayor is credited with helping save New York from its economic crisis in the 1970s and leading it to financial rebirth.
Good to see a powerful politician die without leaving millions of $$$ in his estate. He was a real mentch.
Where there’s a ‘will’ there’s a relative.
FALSE! The Bulk of Koch’s estate went to TAXES and fees at least $5 Million. So to those who think by beaing cheap when they are alive accomplishes anything. It does, it leaves your money to the government and lawyers.
Who did he leave the bridge for 😉
keep bickering about narishkeit, folks. That way, you don’t have to deal with reality. I’m glad that’s all you have to worry about. I wish I could say the same.
Why is it anyone’s business who Koch left his estate to? IT WAS HIS MONEY/ASSETS TO LEAVE TO WHOM HE CHOSE! Is this to difficult to understand?
Just a complete group of busy bodies, who have nothing better to do.
incidentally …he left over many millions…much of it in trusts so it can’t be tied directly to him…the reported monies referred to are just his liquid or cash holdings…i have an acquaintance that is a partner in a real estate property with one of his trusts