Thanks Lexi. Excellent sleuthing.
MS is certainly something else!
Thanks! I think I understand why Honey’s estate has been brought into it now. Honey was a co-trustee. From
Ann Brocklehurst’s substack, the 2014 lawsuit against the Shechtman trust:
Honey testified that the proceeds of the fund went straight into one of Mary’s bank accounts, and Honey didn’t have access or know the details about the account activity.
Honey’s testimony starts on page 73 from this part of the court transcripts:
So Noah is now claiming that Mary misused the trust’s funds. Honey’s estate has now been named because she was a co-trustee (and either the main or sole benefactor), imo. And Mary is claiming Honey didn’t specify how the trust was to be distributed. Maybe Honey’s trustees will have to answer that, if they are able to.
This part of the
Bloomberg article may be relevant to the above, imo:
“But the children ended up severing links with Shechtman, their mother’s closest confidant. Money was one of the main causes of the estrangement. Soon after the murders, according to people with knowledge of the matter and correspondence seen by
Businessweek, Shechtman began claiming that Honey had intended to leave her hundreds of millions of dollars—much or even all the money Sherman had been moving to transfer to his wife. Shechtman repeated the claim over the following months and also requested other assets, including jewelry and real estate.
Honey “wanted me and my children to get everything of hers,” Shechtman wrote in one email. “She knew the value of her entire estate would be minimal compared to what you and your siblings would inherit and none of you would need it financially.” (A representative for Shechtman declined to comment.)
Even if the transfer to Honey had occurred, she appears not to have had a will; none has been located.
The money Shechtman said she was due was part of what the children were inheriting. Not surprisingly, they declined to give it to her.”
Mary doesn’t have reasonable grounds to sue Honey’s estate if no will was found, there’s no basis for her to claim she was entitled to anything, imo. I’m wondering if the lawsuit over the trust may become a cold war battleground between her and the Sherman trustees.