Yup, like the older brother, Tim, who never got on the "give me money" gravy train.
These kids were raised in an affluent home and inherited a substantial sum when they came of age. The older one was successful, the younger ones put their money up their noses.
I was raised in poverty with abusive and uncaring parents. I took advantage of every opportunity that came my way.
These kids had every advantage and they blew it. I have no sympathy.
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I think if it were me, I'd want to maintain a relationship with my young cousins, yes. I'm not saying it was an obligation, I just think it's sad that it wasn't something that was important to BS.BBM
I'm not sure, are you suggesting BS had an obligation to watch over his young cousins, even though they were adopted by another couple? Their parents died in 1965, 52 years ago. BS was 75 so he was only 23 years old at the time.
Yes your right, but it's the principal of it. This should have been righted by the adoptive parents giving the boys their money that was due them. Did Barry have the right to sell Empire since the boys had a stake in it and were promised jobs?
So he couldn't maintain a relationship with the kids?Their mother didn't want them raised by relatives. So the rabbi found a couple for them and they were adopted.
BS was in university at the time.
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And in very strong language.After 10 years of legal proceedings the court sided with Sherman.
Horribly sad, indeed.In 1967 Sherman was 25 and Kerry Winter was 5.
The 4 boys - Paul born in 1958; Jeffrey born in 1960;*Kerry*born in 1961; and Dana born in 1962 (deceased) were all under 8 when their parents died. Horribly sad.
In my opinion, it should have been handled by whoever was taking care of the boys and the estate. That deal was made with a company. Sherman and Ulster. Are they also going after Ulster?
Everything should have been written into the contract at the time of the sale, all contingencies.
Oh and $15000 a month, $180000/year for doing nothing? Yeah, I'll take it.
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Good for you for over coming adversity. I know it's not an easy road for everyone, I've been there too.Yup, like the older brother, Tim, who never got on the "give me money" gravy train.
These kids were raised in an affluent home and inherited a substantial sum when they came of age. The older one was successful, the younger ones put their money up their noses.
I was raised in poverty with abusive and uncaring parents. I took advantage of every opportunity that came my way.
These kids had every advantage and they blew it. I have no sympathy.
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My dying mother had a prescription for marinol, pill form of THC. When my mom entered palliative care, you hand the nurses all the prescriptions for them to manage till death. They threw all the marinol pills in the garbage because pot is illegal or some BS like that. That was 2008.It seems what Apotex (and other drug companies) want to develop in medical cannabis in pill form. The advantages are that the THC dosage would be exact, there would be no stigma involved for patients who had it prescribed, and products could be developed with some of the other beneficial but non-hallucinogenic cannabinoids.
I certainly agree with you. I think Barry did what he thought was right when he found out, and what he was capable of? Not everyone is tapped into their nurturing side, and for their own psychological reasons.The mother of the children denied the family her children. Why? Who knows.
Maybe the adoptive parents did not allow a relationship or maybe the children were not near where Barry lived.
He did what he could when he found out. But they had all kinds of strikes against them. The loss of parents. The bad adoptive parents. These kids needed intense counseling but no one knew that kind of thing back then.
No one understood addiction. It was a different world.
I think many people would think getting a hefty allowance each month, homes, cottages and business loans would be lovely. Now we kmow the pain of their losses is what drove them to their addictions.
Back in the day and even now, people think children are reslilienr. We know that is not true even though people still say it
Horribly sad, indeed.
And $180,000 a year? Heck, I'd take it too. But we are speaking about a whole different ball game of wealth. I think 20% of a multi-billion dollar company would have amounted to more, but I'm awful at math.
In any sense, I think the cousins just felt wrong all around, in general, and from many different avenues. They were only children at the time, and after poking around as adults, it all just unraveled. They decided to go after a stake in the business. However I think if they did some work with a therapist, they would figure out that their sense of being wronged went much deeper than the financial aspect.
What do you think TPD might hope to find by searching with a metal detector?
Even if they had, its near impossible, when young people are involved with drugs, to motivate them to go to university with the expectation they work for an uncle's company, who quite likely held high expectations of his employees. We also don't know the inheritance they received beyond the sale of Empire but quite probably there was more. By the 80's it gone?
Had BS not become highly successful and represented yet another gravy train, I doubt these cousins would've given him the time of day. JMO
Good for you for over coming adversity. I know it's not an easy road for everyone, I've been there too.
We really don't know much of what their circumstances were however or what opportunities they had, aside from the financial dealings being reported. And everyone adapts differently and is effected differently, by certain adversities they face, in any phase of life. I'm glad you were able to persevere, however.