Isaac Stern’s Evil Executor Must Pay

Famous violinist Isaac Stern died on September 22, 2001 in New York City.

On May 4, 2005, a probate judge in New Milford, Connecticut awarded more than $500,000 to his three children against the executor of Stern’s estate, William Moorhead III.  The children claimed that Moorhead undervalued the their father’s estate and then transferred those assets to Stern’s wife, their step-mother.

Judge Martin Landgrebe also chastised Moorhead for paying himself $318,000 for things such as “a full-time office manager as well as cable TV, Internet access, three voice telephone lines, a fax line, telephone service, a New York Times subscription and maid service.”  The judge said the payment was “outrageous, improper, and unjustified.”