Yeap, dirty laundry, as in, all those secrets, skeletons in the closet being out in the open for everyone to perused, gossip about, speculate and give their own interpretation. Most of us love to hear “juicy” tidbits or snippets of information regarding celebrities, politicians or high-society people. What makes these issues exciting? It is perhaps the knowledge that no matter the situation in life one person is in, we are all vulnerable. We make mistakes, we have “wrong” decisions, we gamble with stakes that may be too high or too low.

One of the worst airing of dirty laundry done in public is that of family squabbles over financial issues. Its ugly. Its nasty. Its downright shameful that the teeny tiny details are being read or talked about by people they hardly know or care about. Like for instance the Astor Family.

This is tragic. Were the mother not rich, perhaps such wouldn’t have happened. Famous names like that of Annette de la Renta, Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller are involved in the case. To give you an idea of what the fuss is all about and who is Brooke Astor, read below a part of the article in the link above.

“The founder of the Astor family … was America’s first millionaire at the time when the world millionaire had just been invented,” Kaplan said. “[Brooke] is the last Astor, at least in the sense of social and financial prominence.”

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