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Chicago P.D.star Marina Squerciati claims she is the child of the late John R. Jakobson, a wealthy financier, and wants to be included in his estate,theNew York Postreports.
Squerciati claims that Jakobson, who died in 2017 and was worth $100 million, promised that he would leave money for her in his will, which includes no such provision.
Squerciati’s request to benefit from Jakobson’s estate “amounts to nothing more than an avaricious attempt to enforce an alleged, vague oral promise made to [her] mother, rather than to herself, and which resulted in no legally recognizable injury to her,” Jakobson’s son Nicholas’ lawyers told thePost.
The lawyers reportedly offered her $50,000, saying that she had “ample opportunity as an adult” to make sure that Jakobson left her money in his will.
TheNew York Postreports that court papers show that Jakobson gave Squerciati’s mother, Marie, $1,200 per month for two decades. He allegedly paid $175,000 so that Squerciati could attend the Dalton School and $131,000 so that she could attend Northwestern University.
Jakobson’s first marriage to Barbara Jakobson ended in divorce in the 1970s. One of their three children,Maggie Wheeler, played Janice — becoming famous for her iconic “Oh! My! Gawd!” — onFriends. John and Barbara’s son died, according toJohn’s obituary.
Joan commented to theNew York Post, “I’m not aware of it at all … She said she was John’s daughter?” She added, “This has all hit me, like, I don’t know — a snowstorm.”
source: people.com
