Billionaire's daughter in NJ court in will dispute
Source: AP, Excite
By DAVID PORTER
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) - A bitter fight between two of the New York area's wealthiest families is playing out in the modest trappings of a county courthouse more used to seeing low-level drug offenders and alimony cheats.
On one side is James Cohen, son of the founder of Hudson News, the newsstand operator with stores in airports and train stations across the country. On the other is Cohen's niece, Samantha Perelman, the 23-year-old daughter of billionaire Revlon Chairman Ronald Perelman.
Samantha Perelman claims her uncle systematically squeezed her out of her grandfather Robert Cohen's will as he suffered from the debilitating effects of a Parkinson's-like disease before dying in 2012.
The case figures to turn on whether Perelman's attorneys can demonstrate to state Superior Court Judge Estela De La Cruz that James Cohen used undue influence to get his father to change his will several times to reduce Perelman's share.
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This Sept. 23, 2013 photo, Samantha Perelman, daughter of billionaire Ronald Perelman, and granddaughter of the late Hudson News patriarch Robert Cohen, center, looks on during opening arguments in her lawsuit against the Cohen family in Superior Court in Hackensack, N.J. Samantha Perelman claims her uncle, James Cohen,, systematically squeezed her out of her grandfather’s will during the last several years of Robert Cohen’s life as he suffered from the debilitating effects of a Parkinson’s-like disease before dying in 2012. (AP Photo/The Record of Bergen County, Amy Newman, Pool)
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