Post by Logan on Apr 16, 2016 5:33:39 GMT -6
Waldorf’s longest-tenured resident owed $1M when she died: suit
The Waldorf Astoria’s longest residing guest — the agent for celebrities including artist Andy Warhol and British film star George Sanders — owed nearly $1 million in rent and meal charges when she died, even though she was worth more than twice that.
Now the Waldorf is battling Rosalind “Roz” Cole’s estranged relatives in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court over her $2.2 million estate.
Cole moved into suite No. 38J in 1961, two years after her husband died. In 2009 she co-wrote a children’s book, “The Dog That Lived at the Waldorf,” about her time at the luxury digs with her spaniel Jingabo.
Then, in 2013, the hotel fixture, who worked out of the restaurant’s clubby steakhouse Bull and Bear, made an unusual agreement with her landlord to quietly give up her apartment in exchange for wiping out $650,000 she owed.
Read more: nypost.com/2016/04/16/waldorfs-longest-tenured-resident-owed-1m-when-she-died-suit/
The Waldorf Astoria’s longest residing guest — the agent for celebrities including artist Andy Warhol and British film star George Sanders — owed nearly $1 million in rent and meal charges when she died, even though she was worth more than twice that.
Now the Waldorf is battling Rosalind “Roz” Cole’s estranged relatives in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court over her $2.2 million estate.
Cole moved into suite No. 38J in 1961, two years after her husband died. In 2009 she co-wrote a children’s book, “The Dog That Lived at the Waldorf,” about her time at the luxury digs with her spaniel Jingabo.
Then, in 2013, the hotel fixture, who worked out of the restaurant’s clubby steakhouse Bull and Bear, made an unusual agreement with her landlord to quietly give up her apartment in exchange for wiping out $650,000 she owed.
Read more: nypost.com/2016/04/16/waldorfs-longest-tenured-resident-owed-1m-when-she-died-suit/