A high most cancers surgeon allegedly duped her Upper East Side relative fighting dementia into altering her will to inherit her $749,000 Carnegie Hill co-op, in line with a lawsuit.
Ann Marie Egloff is making an attempt to unload Jo Ann Paganetti’s one bed room pad, regardless of objections from Paganetti’s daughter, Georgia Lee Sarah Andrews, who sued the Boston physician Nov. 27 in a bid to cease the sale.
Paganetti started displaying indicators of extreme dementia in 2018, after struggling a stroke, Andrews stated in her Manhattan Supreme Court submitting.
Despite giving Andrews up for adoption in 1966, Paganetti had lengthy pursued a relationship together with her organic daughter, making her the beneficiary of her 1986 will, and left her the East 94th avenue co-op, Andrews contended within the authorized papers.
Egloff 58, a health care provider at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, acquired concerned in July 2023, when Paganetti, a former Fashion Institute of Technology professor, landed within the Upper East Side Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
That month, a lawyer representing Egloff confirmed up and tried to get Paganetti to signal what gave the impression to be property planning papers — over the objection of her docs and whereas the older lady was “below the affect of psychotropic medicine,” in line with the lawsuit.
“Dr. Egloff all through her involvement within the decedent’s affairs took steps to isolate the decedent from the remainder of her household,” Andrews stated in court docket papers.
A belief was established in March, and the co-op shares had been transferred into it by April 18 by AKAM Living Services, a property administration agency, who had been additionally named as defendants.
DNA testing confirmed all three ladies had been associated, nevertheless it’s unclear how. Egloff was Paganetti’s mom’s maiden identify.
Egloff, by her legal professional, additionally challenged whether or not Andrews was biologically associated to Paganetti quickly after the lady’s dying at 86 on April 30.
Andrews desires a court docket to cease the sale of her mother’s residence, which was put available on the market final month and in contract by Nov. 8.
Egloff, a neck and head most cancers specialist who can also be affiliated with Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, stated she was unaware of the lawsuit earlier than declining additional remark.
