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The suit also hopes to gain Ellis — or, now, his estate — control of the institute's six-story townhouse on East 65th Street, which was bought with Ellis's book royalties and in which he lived and worked since the early sixties. (It's now worth around $20 million.) The institute argues that Ellis had run out of Blue Cross and Medicare coverage, and it was his own obligation to cover further health-care costs. "Dr. Ellis's personal papers are his papers, but our position is that client files belong to the institute," executive director Robert E. O'Connell added. O'Connell notes this is only the most recent of three suits Ellis had filed against the institute in his final years. No doubt he's happy at least one remains. —Mary Reinholz
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