Wasserstein’s Mistress Fights for Share of His Estate

Bruce Wasserstein’s former mistress was urged to have his child through IVF and now, after his death, wants a share of his $2.2 billion fortune. Their child was born with autism a year before his death, and upon confronting him, she found him with a new woman. The mother claims that Wasserstein put in writing that he wanted his daughter to have an equal share of his estate along with his other five children. Now, however, she claims that his eldest children have written his daughter out of the will and are challenging his testator language. Legal documents were filed in 2012, and the battle is ongoing.

See Wills Robinson, How Bruce Wasserstein ‘Encouraged His Mistress To Get Pregnant Through IVF, Dumped Her on Bedrest and Was in Bed with Another Woman When She Confronted Him After the Birth – And Now Their Child Has Been Cut From the $2.2 Billion Fortune,’ Daily Mail, June 7, 2016.

Special thanks to Joel Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.