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A good way to go?
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 7:36 pm
by Gob
A renowned Wall Street tycoon gave away his entire $800 million fortune before falling to his death in a suicide jump this week.
Hedge fund multi-millionaire Robert W. Wilson, 87, leapt from the 16th floor of his luxury San Remo apartment building, a prestigious address in New York’s Upper East Side which has been the residence of Steven Spielberg, Demi Moore, Glenn Close, Dustin Hoffman, Bono, Steve Martin, Bruce Willis and Steve Jobs in the past.
According to the New York Police Department, he left a note at the scene. He had suffered from a stroke just a few months before.
“He always said he didn’t want to suffer and when the time came, he would be ready,” close friend Stephen Viscusi told the New York Post.
"His plan was to give all his money away. He told me recently, 'I only have about $100 million to go.'"
He has since been praised as a "legend" by his peers, after pledging his entire worth to charity some years before he ended his life.
He gave the last $100 million of his money to not-for-profit environmental advocacy group the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
Fred Krupp, the president of the EDF, said of the group’s biggest benefactor: "Robert W. Wilson was a Wall Street legend who became a prominent philanthropist.
Re: A good way to go?
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 7:53 pm
by Rick
It'll be challenged based on his mental outlook
Re: A good way to go?
Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 10:19 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Nah - he probably had psychs verify his sanity on videotape before he jumped and although the family will contest the will, everything will end up going to his illegitimate daughter who's a missionary in South America, but not to worry because his lawyers will send a (non)recovering alcoholic associate to find her and she'll end up dying of a disease but he'll become sober and converted and help a padre in Nowhere USA build his church hall, doing sheet-rock for the first time in his life and ...
Really. Someone should write a book
Re: A good way to go?
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 1:44 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Really. Someone should write a book
Already got my publisher lined up.
Re: A good way to go?
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:40 pm
by rubato
$800 M buys the kind of legal horsepower that gets you what you want.
And that, is that.
yrs,
rubato
Re: A good way to go?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 6:33 pm
by Sue U
Rick wrote:It'll be challenged based on his mental outlook
MajGenl.Meade wrote:Nah - he probably had psychs verify his sanity on videotape before he jumped and although the family will contest the will,
Nothing to challenge, no will to contest; he gave away everything while he was still alive, as was his absolute right to do. Good on him.
I take issue with the jumping, however; too messy and too much chance of injury to persons below. Morphine overdose would have been a better choice.
Re: A good way to go?
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 8:35 pm
by TPFKA@W
MSO4 is not that easy to get. I have much better, cleaner and more efficient ways in mind but I am not going to say as I don't want to give anyone ideas.
Re: A good way to go?
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 2:32 am
by rubato
Morphine sulfate would not be near the top of my list either.
And if I had really decided to check out I'd take a couple of weeks to enjoy Chemical Disneyland! to the fullest.
yrs,
rubato