Two daughters of a late Wall Street titan are hitting back at his “greedy” widow, saying she has terrorized the family for a bigger share of his multimillion-dollar estate.
Gary Tweed — who made his fortune as senior vice president at the investment banking firm Smith Barney in the 1980s — made sure his grown daughters and third wife, Nadine Brown, were taken care of in his will before he died in December at age 70.
That included leaving his wife of four years a “multimillion payout,” multiple waterfront properties in the Cayman Islands, a profitable landscaping business and cash left in a “carefully structured spousal trust,” Tweed’s daughters Kimberly Regan and Kelly Tweed claim in their Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Monday.
“There is no objection to her maintenance of that continued lifestyle. Those were his wishes,” said the daughters’ attorney Nicholas Gravante. “It was very specific in the will.”
But right after Tweed was diagnosed with stage-4 melanoma last October, Brown began waging a war against stepdaughters Kimberly and Kelly in order to get more, the suit said.
“It was only when Mr. Tweed became unconscious at the hospital and unable to respond to family that Ms. Brown quickly moved to retain a law firm and challenge her share of the will,” their suit alleges.
With her husband on his deathbed, Brown allegedly attacked Kelly, who was pregnant, as well as Kimberly’s husband at the hospital, which made Kelly miss her father’s final moments, papers say.
Brown also allegedly accused Kelly of “stealing” her hubby’s money to pay for his funeral and other bills and threatened to go to the media with the “story” of her relationship with Tweed in an effort to extort millions more.
Kimberly and Kelly are suing her for $10 million, citing emotional distress — and to stop her from continuing to go after Tweed’s estate, which is worth $9.5 million.
Brown did not immediately return a message.