Times Reporters Wish Astor Trial Would Just Die Already
"Much like the woman at the center of it, the Astor trial has had a life longer than anyone could have reasonably expected."
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"Much like the woman at the center of it, the Astor trial has had a life longer than anyone could have reasonably expected."
Or a handful of other old preppy people, for that matter.
According to a nurse's testimony, the aging matriarch couldn't sleep over fears her son was trying to kill her — but was also lucid enough to issue some sage advice.
You know, that friend who always thinks the two of you are closer than you actually are.
Today at the Astor trial, the former secretary of State told the story of his undoing at the hands of the famous socialite.
But, to be fair, they are really AWESOME ones.
"She is killing him. She's f----- killing him," Astor's daughter-in-law ranted in 2001, according to a witness. "If [Anthony Marshall] dies before I do, I get nothing."
Also, she used to claim, Bill Clinton liked to hit on her.
Even though she herself testified that the aging doyenne was mentally infirm at the time she gave them.
File this under "When Wasps stop being polite, and start getting real."
Amazingly, the Astor trial gets uglier.
But hopefully not with food in their mouths. Plus, Michael Lewis has a small penis, and other gossip in our daily roundup.
"Do you have any attitudes, positive or negative, toward people of great wealth that would affect your ability to be a fair and impartial juror in this case?"
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