Skip to content
Round Logo — Smalller size
Wills, Trusts, & Estates Prof Blog
Formerly Hosted by the Law Professor Blogs Network

Unknown Will Filed for $40 Million Blum Estate

By Gerry W. Beyer

Statenisland

StatenIsland developer Roman Blum supposedly died intestate last year at age 97,leaving the largest unclaimed estate in New York history to the tune of $40million.

However, a willhas now been submitted for legal review in the Surrogate Court of RichmondCounty by named sole beneficiary, Anthony J. Allegrino II, a New Windsorattorney reportedly disbarred in at least one state.  Because New York stands to receive theestate, the initial hearing has been pushed back to October 8 to allow thestate attorney general to be present. 

Thesubmitted will comes as a surprise to Blum’s longtime friend and attorneyRobert Fishler who said, “If he was going to do a will, I would have knownabout it.”

See Ryan Lavis, Upstate Man, Claiming to Be Sole Heir toStaten Island Developer’s $40M Fortune, Files Will in Court, Staten IslandAdvance, Sept. 19, 2013.

Posted in:
Current Affairs, Intestate Succession and Wills