The two children of New York Rangers icon Rod Gilbert are facing off against their stepmother in Manhattan Surrogate Court, claiming she manipulated the hockey legend on his deathbed to change his …
The two children of late New York Rangers icon Rod Gilbert are squaring off against their stepmother in Manhattan Surrogate Court, claiming she manipulated the hockey legend on his deathbed to change his will and cut them out of their inheritance.
Gilbert married the former Judith Christy in 1991, in a ceremony conducted by then-Mayor David Dinkins.The children also want possession of a 40-inch-square silkscreen on canvas portrait of Gilbert created by iconic pop artist Andy Warhol.He was 80. According to that letter, the hockey legend gifted “all of [his] right, title and interest in and to any and all sports memorabilia” to his wife.
“Judith improbably claims that the assets in Rod’s estate are inadequate to satisfy either of the bequests that he made to his children,” the petition says.Gilbert married the former Judith Christy in 1991, in a ceremony conducted by then-Mayor David Dinkins. His 1974 marriage to first wife, Judy Preston, of Tallahassee, Fla. ended in divorce, but produced Chantal and Justin.
Judith Gilbert denied the allegations in the court filing, saying she had nothing to do with any change her husband made to his will.She noted her intention has always been to give any game-used Gilbert memorabilia — “his jersey, his skates, his sticks” — and the Warhol piece to Chantal and Justin. “They should have it. Because Rod would want them to have it,” she said.
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