so in life, so in death... and that's the way it is. NOT surprised.
Posted on 08/23/2009 4:07:58 PM PDT by Zakeet
Edited on 08/23/2009 4:15:52 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
While former opera singer Joanna Simon was Walter Cronkite's constant companion in the last four years of his life, summering in Martha's Vineyard and yachting off the East Coast with the legendary TV anchor, he didn't leave her a cent when he died last month.
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If that is Carly Simon’s sister; she has plenty of bucks. They come from a rich publishing family.
Gotta say I agree with this. His money was his to do with as he wished.
My mom and dad were happily married for almost 46 years and when mom died, it nearly killed dad. He was so awfully unhappy and felt so alone. When he met a sweet little widow lady about two years later and then told us about two months later they were going to get married, we were surprised but really happy that he had found someone. She lived in Texas and he lived in NC but they had done a lot of talking and had flown back and forth to see one another. We knew he loved mom but we also knew he needed someone and thank God he found that someone. My two sisters, my brother and I were glad to see him get married again. It’s been 9 years and they are having a great time together.
Gee, I feel so sorry for the skank.
It sounds like we agree.
so in life, so in death... and that's the way it is. NOT surprised.
I look at this thing with Cronkite in a more philosophical and political way.Cronkite was a leftist.Very,*very* far to the left.And what do American leftists believe most firmly? That the world in general,and the US in particular,is just chock full of suffering...of victims of our filthy capitalist system.One would think that such a compassionate guy like Cronkite would give most...if not all...of his $$$ to homeless shelters,soup kitchens and "women's reproductive health clinics" (aka:Planned Barrenhood).
I think that Cronkite's failure to do this proves positively that he was just another rich leftist phoney.
for now...
So what? Sounds fine to me.
It was his estate, and his choice to leave it to whomever he wanted.
Doesn’t sound like his lady friend needed the money, and he was apparently open about how he wanted his estate divided.
None of our business.
I wonder if he got a special IRS exemption that I have read about (a single line in the IRS code) exempting his fortune from inheritance taxes. Hope the gubmint eats his estate. Serve the leftist right. An accountant friend said he had seen these (the IRS code is millions of lines long, IMSMR).
Give it up.
I’m perfectly happy for Cronkite to leave his estate to his kids and his friends.
What a crappy attitude here on FR. Regardless of whether you agree with Cronkite’s views or not, this is a free country, and he enjoyed the same first amendment rights that we do.
I hate estate taxes, and if I don’t want to pay them, it would be hypocritical for me to want anyone else to.
This is just a stupid discussion.
She probably can’t believe she waited four stinking years for Cronkite to die and ended up with squat.
Anyway, I wonder how much Cronkite left to the DNC?
Get real. Cronkite walked into the polling place and voted with his fellow rats for government to confiscate more and more - - from his neighbors. If he did anything at all to shield his own estate from those taxes he so enjoyed foisting on everybody else, then it is he who is the hypocrite. I hope the government sucks Cronkite's estate dry. (spit) Screw that traitorous cadaver.
This is how it should be. I can’t imagine telling my widowed father anything except how happy I was for him if he wanted to get married again. If Cronkite’s daughter really did rage against him getting remarried, she’s a selfish bitch.
Why would anyone expect anything from someone they weren’t married to who has 3 heirs of his own?
SOME of you people are ignorant.....these two were “elderly”....these days...often the “elderly” LIVE together, without marriage....because of tax laws, and estate issues.....they BOTH have “estates.” I didn’t like the old codger Cronkite, but THIS is NOT another reason.
Joanna hardly needs Uncle Walter’s money. She was a successful singer,longtime soprano singing at the Metropolitan Opera. She is the daughter of the Simon in Simon and Schuster, and is the sister of Carly Simon.
Somebody should give her a t-shirt: “I was screwing Walter Cronkite and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”
I'm sure he used every trick in the book to avoid the Tax Man, just as John Kerry chose to pay the lower percentage of State Income Taxes when he filed his State Tax Return.
Lol
hell...he finally did something right
bet he gave her stuff while alive
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