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Cronkite Will Leaves Gal Pal High and Dry

Money goes to kids, CBS staff; daughter: 'it was about my mother'

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 23, 2009 8:59 AM CDT

(Newser) – Walter Cronkite left nada in his will for his opera star girlfriend, reports the New York Post. The 2005 document, written before he and singer Joanna Simon became attached at the hip, divides Cronkite's estate among his three kids and his CBS staff. The newsman’s daughter says Cronkite never planned to include Simon in the document.

“It was about my mother," says Nancy Cronkite. "Dad said to us, 'I don't want to marry Joanna out of respect for your mother, and I don't want to share my estate with her.'"

Rev. William McD. Tully leads the way as pallbearers carry the casket containing the body of CBS newsman Walter Cronkite down the steps at his funeral in New York in July.
Rev. William McD. Tully leads the way as pallbearers carry the casket containing the body of CBS newsman Walter Cronkite down the steps at his funeral in New York in July.   (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Former news anchor Walter Cronkite.
Former news anchor Walter Cronkite.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
American mezzo-soprano Joanna Simon leaves St. Bartholomew's Church in New York after the funeral for Walter Cronkite earlier this summer.
American mezzo-soprano Joanna Simon leaves St. Bartholomew's Church in New York after the funeral for Walter Cronkite earlier this summer.   (AP Photo/William Regan)
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youngblood
Aug 25, 2009 7:13 AM CDT
I can see it now when Walter called up his kids a few years ago to tell them he wanted to get married again to Ms. Simon at Martha's Vineyard, the children must have went balistic on Walter, they did NOT want him to remarry....it's all about the money, the kids didn't want any of their inheritance to go to Ms. Simons. And that's the way it is.
youngblood
Aug 25, 2009 6:59 AM CDT
How do u know if she has plenty of her own money, NYC is very expensive and she is much older and it's more difficult to make money when you are older. Walter should have thrown her a few bucks for Christ sakes, he had more then enough to go around and he also knew what it felt like to be shafted since his old news bosses shafted him, he felt. Walter must have had that other old fashion values too, and his sentiment towards Ms. Simon was why buy the cow when the milk is free!
bacimom
Aug 25, 2009 5:19 AM CDT
Why is any of this our business? What makes it news?

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