One daughter, Roxanne Storey, alleged that Smith committed “financial elder abuse” and acted to seize control of his fortune when when her father was “physically feeble and emotionally vulnerable and unable to care for his own needs,” according to San Joaquin County court records.
Storey sought to have her stepmother removed as the executor of the will and demanded compensation for the losses that she claimed she and her siblings had suffered, the Daily Mail reported. Court documents also show that on three occasions Smith failed to carry out court orders to pay each of her stepdaughters a $250,000 share of their inheritance.
She eventually settled the case with the three daughters. The opposing parties agreed to drop a number of legal actions and allegations, and Ann Lesley Smith was restored as trustee. The Daily Mail’s report comes after it emerged that Ann Lesley Smith endured a tumultuous first marriage to the much-older Huntington, a prominent San Francisco lawyer and philanthropist who had a net worth of around $15 million before his death in 1996.
Smith was a 28-year-old dental hygienist when she married the 47-year-old Huntington. After they married, she stopped working as a dental hygienist and joined their “extremely high” standard of living, which included a home in Tiburon, an estate in Lake Tahoe and Smith spending thousands of dollars a month on clothes.
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