NY: Generosa Ammons leaves nada to estranged Hubby
javaluuver
find crimes there like this (with twists and turns) really intriguing! Anne
Rule should look at this one for a future book. I don't think it has had
much press outside of NY.
Here's one update .... one to follow .... I am waiting for the day they have
enough evidence to charge Danny Pelosi with Ted Ammons murder.
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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/4382.htm
NANNY $PANKS DANNY
By LISA PULITZER, KIERAN CROWLEY and MARSHA KRANES August 28, 2003 --
The nanny gets a cool $1 million, the two kids and free lifetime use of the
East Hampton mansion.
That's the bottom line in the last will and testament of millionaire
Generosa Ammon Pelosi.
Generosa, who died Friday of cancer at age 46, did not mention her estranged
husband, contractor Danny Pelosi, anywhere in the 37-page document.
In an attachment, her executors noted that Pelosi, 40, waived all interest
in his wife's estate in a post-nuptial agreement reached on July 1, the day
before her will was written.
Under the terms of that agreement, Pelosi received $2 million and the
waterfront home in Center Moriches, L.I., that the two once shared, sources
said.
The will, filed yesterday in Surrogate Court in Riverhead, supercedes a July
2002 will in which Generosa left Pelosi all but $1.5 million of her estate -
which some estimates peg at $100 million or more.
Documents with the will offered a far more conservative value of about $34
million.
In the final will, Generosa appoints nanny Kathryn Ann Mayne as guardian of
her adopted 13-year-old Russian-born twins, Alexa and Gregory - a move a
relative plans to challenge in court - and directs her to live with them at
her home at 59 Middle Lane in East Hampton.
That's the mansion where Generosa's former husband Ted Ammon was found
bludgeoned to death in October 2001 - a murder for which Pelosi is the prime
suspect.
The will states that Mayne, 59, "shall live there for the duration of her
life and shall not be responsible for any rent or maintenance expenses of
the house and grounds."
It further directs that the title to the house - which the will valued at $9
million - is to be held in trust for the twins until Mayne's death.
While Pelosi received a cold shoulder in the will, his mother didn't.
Generosa bequeathed her mother-in-law, Janet Pelosi, $250,000.
Generosa left her jewelry to her daughter, asking it be turned over when she
reaches 18.
She also instructed the executors of her will to pay Manhattan artist Kathy
Grove $100,000 to "print my collection of photos . . . my life's work" for
her children.
She asked that the balance of her estate - personal property listed in court
papers as worth about $25 million - be equally divided, with half going to
her children and half going to the Ammon Foundation, a charitable
organization founded by her first husband.
Generosa asked to be cremated and requested that her ashes be turned over to
Mayne. She also directed that "no wake, funeral mass or memorial service" be
held. She has been cremated, but Mayne has not gotten the ashes.
Pelosi took possession of them, and on Monday he took them to The Stanhope
hotel bar to toast Generosa's memory at the site of their first date.
He told The Post he planned to sprinkle the ashes among Generosa's beloved
poppies at a memorial service.
After learning the details of the will yesterday, Pelosi suggested he may
contest it. Of the post-nuptial agreement, he said, "I was directed by my
attorneys to sign certain documents, and we are reviewing them."
He intimated that the $2 million in the post-nup was for his legal defense -
should he be indicted for Ammon's murder. "My wife guaranteed my legal
defense because she knows I had nothing to do with the homicide," he said.
javaluuver
Danny Pelosi
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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/112772p-101842c.html
Danny's an ash!
By ROBERT GEARTY and GREG GITTRICH
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Thursday, August 28th, 2003
Generosa Ammon wanted her ex-con husband to get nothing upon her
death - not even her ashes.
Her last will and testament makes no mention of Danny Pelosi, an
electrician who this week swiped his wealthy wife's cremated remains from a
Manhattan funeral home.
She had requested that her ashes be given to the nanny - not to
Danny - for safekeeping.
The nanny, Kathryn Mayne, was named as the guardian of Ammon's
13-year-old twins. She also got $1 million and a lifetime of free housing at
the family's East Hampton, L.I., estate.
Shortly before her death last week, Ammon, 47, cut Pelosi out of her
will, leaving the bulk of her $34 million fortune to her children, according
to the 37-page document filed yesterday in Suffolk County Surrogate's Court.
Ammon also doled out $250,000 and a 2001 Porsche Carrera to a
Manhattan contractor and $100,000 to a Park Ave. photographer to print
photos she had taken.
Ammon wanted Danny to get just the $2 million he agreed to take in
July. She didn't even want to take his name to her grave - signing her will
"Generosa Ammon."
The Pelosi family was not shut out in the will. Ammon apparently
retained a warm spot for mother-in-law Janet Pelosi of Center Moriches,
L.I., who will get $250,000.
The signature, attested to by Ammon's lawyer and another witness, is
illegible. By comparison, the handwriting on an earlier will - which would
have left nearly everything to Pelosi - is clear.
New slaying probe
Pelosi is the prime target of a grand jury probe into the 2001 murder
of Ammon's millionaire ex-husband. Financier Ted Ammon, 52, was found
bludgeoned and naked on a bed in his East Hampton mansion - where the nanny
and his children will live.
When he died, he and his wife were close to finalizing a bitter
divorce. After the murder, she married Pelosi, who had installed the
security system in the mansion.
Yesterday, Pelosi attorney Gerald Shargel would not rule out
contesting Generosa Ammon's will.
"The documents I've seen seem to raise more questions than they
answer," he said.
But Ammon's attorney Michael Dowd said she was of sound mind when the
will was signed.
"There is no question now, or has there ever been, what her wishes
were," said Dowd, who as the estate's co-executor will help oversee its
assets for 37 years - until the twins turn 50. "Her focus was on providing
for her two wonderful children."
Ups and downs
If the will stands up to scrutiny, it will deliver an astounding
reversal of fortune for Pelosi.
Until July 2 - the day Ammon's will was signed - Pelosi stood to
inherit nearly all her riches, legal papers show.
A will dated June 5, 2002, made Pelosi's attorney Edward Burke the
executor. It would have given the nanny $1 million to care for the twins and
left $500,000 to Pelosi's sister.
Just about everything else would have fallen to Pelosi, "absolutely
and forever," the document stated.
Forever - until this summer.
After a long battle with cancer, Ammon died at 8:15 p.m. Friday at
Lenox Hill Hospital. Her death certificate says she was "married but
separated."
A petition filed in Surrogate's Court says Pelosi has no stake in her
estate because of a July 1 postnuptial agreement.
The next day, Ammon signed her Danny-free will.
In a July 22 codicil, she said she wanted to be cremated. "There shall
be no wake, funeral, Mass or memorial service held," she ordered. "Further,
it is my wish that my ashes be given to Kathryn Ann Mayne."
Nevertheless, Pelosi walked into the Frank E. Campbell funeral home on
the upper East Side on Monday and took Ammon's ashes. He had refused to
return them as of late yesterday.
"I have asked for the ashes," Dowd said. "We've had no satisfactory
response."
Pelosi's attorney would not say when or if his client intended to
return the remains.
Ammon presumed that her will and the custody of her children - Alexa
and Gregory - would be contested and authorized her estate to fight off
challenges.
Ted Ammon's sister, Sandi Williams, a 55-year-old Sunday school
teacher from Huntsville, Ala., has vowed to fight for custody of the twins.
Pelosi also has not ruled out getting involved.
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> thanks for posting this, I had NO idea she was ill or had died...
I was just thinking the same thing. What a fascinating/troubling ending to
a f/t crime. I wonder how long she had had cancer and had known her
prognosis. Anyone know? Can you picture it - she learns she has only so
long to live, kills her husband and figures she can get away with it for .
.. well, the rest of her life!!
Camasal
crosem
wonder what kind she had...pancreatic is asymptomatic until it's too
late...the patient gets about 6 weeks' notice they will die, in many cases.
if she'd had cancer during the murder/marriage, etc., you'd think it would
have come out...
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javaluuver
> oh, what an interesting theory...she was very young to die from cancer...I
> wonder what kind she had...pancreatic is asymptomatic until it's too
> late...the patient gets about 6 weeks' notice they will die, in many
cases.
> if she'd had cancer during the murder/marriage, etc., you'd think it would
> have come out...
She had breast cancer IIRC. And I believe she was only diagnosed within
2003, was not ill at the time of Ted Ammons murder I don't think. I found it
quite ironic .... since my belief is she is involved or in the know of who
killed Ted Ammons... and she wanted his money, and the kids and all that
went with, and here she dies ~ and you can't take that with you no matter
where you go after you die .... I feel sorriest for the kids. First they
lose their father in a horrible way - then their mother marries some loser -
then she dies ... very tragic for the kids...
Java~
Maggie
>oh, what an interesting theory...she was very young to die from cancer...I
>wonder what kind she had...pancreatic is asymptomatic until it's too
>late...the patient gets about 6 weeks' notice they will die, in many cases.
>if she'd had cancer during the murder/marriage, etc., you'd think it would
>have come out...
****Generosa had been described as "dying from breast cancer" for over a year.
I first read about it shortly after her marriage to Pelosi, which occurred
about three months after Ted died in the fall of 2001. I have no idea when it
was first diagnosed, but for some reason I believe it is a reoccurance of a
previous cancer. Not sure if I read that somewhere or just assumed.
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>| "crosem" <cro...@flash.net> wrote in message
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>| > thanks for posting this, I had NO idea she was ill or had died...
>|
>| I was just thinking the same thing. What a fascinating/troubling ending
>to
>| a f/t crime. I wonder how long she had had cancer and had known her
>| prognosis. Anyone know? Can you picture it - she learns she has only
>so
>| long to live, kills her husband and figures she can get away with it for
>.
>| .. well, the rest of her life!!
>|
>| Camasal
Maggie
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crosem
with no cash...now they are Americans with tons o' cash...
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