Stephen Sondheim left behind an estate worth an estimated $75 million
nypost.comdied suddenly at his Roxbury, Conn. home in November, a day after celebrating Thanksgiving, his lawyer and friend F. Richard Pappas announced at the time.The “West Side Story” songwriter’s assets totaled approximately $75 million, according to papers accompanying his 2017 will filed in Manhattan Surrogate’s court last month.Sondheim designated his wealth — including his personal effects, the rights to his music and literary works and everything else — to go into the Stephen J.
Sondheim Revocable Trust, the will says.He named Pappas and another man as the executors of his estate, according to the will.“Stephen Sondheim has worked with the top planning attorneys in the country and has a very good sound estate plan that will benefit his spouse and his friends and charitable organizations that were important to him,” a source, a New York trust and estate lawyer who is not connected to Sondheim’s case, told The Post.
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