The will of a wealthy heiress is being contested after she left three million dollars to her pet chihuahua Conchita.
Gail Posner, died in March at the age of 67. Her will also divvied up $26 million among various staff members, as well as granting them permission to live in her $8.3 million Miami Beach mansion to care for Conchita. Surprisingly, Posner’s son Bret Carr took issue with these provisions, and is contesting his mother’s supposed final wishes in court.
Carr, Posner’s “only living child,” believes that a conspiracy was hatched to make the “$3 million to the dog” scenario a bit more believable:
Household aides, he claims, drugged his sick mother with pain medications and conspired to steal her assets by inducing her to change her will and trust arrangements in 2008. Others, including his mother’s trust attorney, he alleges, used their influence to bend her wishes…. Among Mr. Carr’s claims is that the aides directed a “deeply disturbed” Ms. Posner to hire a publicist to promote Conchita as “one of the world’s most spoiled dogs”—complete with a four-season wardrobe, full-time staff and diamond jewelry. Mr. Carr’s lawyer, Bruce Katzen, says he believes the publicity campaign was part of a “ruse” to explain why a large trust fund was needed to care for the dogs.
Carr was left a comparatively insulting $1m in his mother’s will. Gail Posner was the daughter of sketchy financier Victor Posner, who died in 2002.
