Pamela Harriman, the U.S. ambassador to France who died earlier this month, bequeathed her only son and his estranged wife her lavish homes, acres of property and jewels.
Harriman's gardeners, cook and butler also will share in the estimated $10 million estate under the will Harriman, 76, drew up a month before she died of a stroke on Feb. 5, The Washington Post reports in Wednesday's editions.The estate is far short of what it was two years ago, when Harriman and her late husband's heirs squabbled over what at one time was a $100 million the late New York Gov. Averell Harriman left his family. He died in 1986.
The children and grandchildren accused Harriman of wasting $30 million of the estate on bad investments while she acted as trustee. The two sides eventually settled the dispute - after Harriman initially backed out of a tentative $20 million settlement - but the terms were not disclosed.