The Glasser Case — Another Update
Earlier on this blog, here and here, I have been reporting on the case of Lillian Glasser and the battle to control her and her $25 million fortune.
Another investigative report was published yesterday from which the following excerpts are taken:
Stuck in San Antonio for the past 10 months as the central figure in a complex and contentious family probate battle, Lillian Glasser, a wealthy 85-year-old widow from New Jersey, is despairing of ever going home.
“I can’t take it anymore. I’m afraid I’ll never live to see New Jersey again. I think that’s going to be the end of it, that I’ll never make it back,” Glasser said last week. “I never did anything. I’m the victim of a bunch of nuts.”
According to Glasser’s lawyer, friends and family members who speak to her regularly, her mood is becoming increasingly morbid and pessimistic. To one, she remarked bitterly that the only way she’ll leave Texas is in a box.
“She is in essence, walking her last mile. She’s in a desperate state here. If she doesn’t get out of Texas, the woman is going to give up,” said Karen Pena, Glasser’s court-appointed lawyer in San Antonio.
Hopeless holiday for courts’ captive, San Antonio Express-News, Dec. 26, 2005.