HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A judge has awarded the Montana fishing retreat of the late CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt to his longtime mistress.
A letter Kuralt wrote to Patricia Shannon two weeks before he died in 1997 clearly expressed his wish that she have the 90 acres along the Big Hole River after his death, state District Judge John Christensen said Wednesday.Given the long and intimate relationship between Kuralt and Shannon, the judge said, "any other conclusion would not make sense and defies logic."
Kuralt's two children had argued that the letter merely expressed their father's intention to someday draft a will giving Shannon the property.