{"id":398195,"date":"2022-01-23T19:40:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stephen-sondheim-left-behind-an-estate-worth-an-estimated-75-million\/"},"modified":"2022-01-23T19:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:40:15","slug":"stephen-sondheim-left-behind-an-estate-worth-an-estimated-75-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stephen-sondheim-left-behind-an-estate-worth-an-estimated-75-million\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stephen Sondheim left behind an estate worth an estimated $75 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Stephen Sondheim left behind an estate worth an estimated $75 million<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim left behind an estate estimated to be worth as much as $75 million to his husband, charities and a dozen other friends, court papers show.<\/p>\n<p>The 91-year-old lyricist and composer died suddenly at his Roxbury, Conn. home in November, a day after celebrating Thanksgiving, his lawyer and friend F. Richard P<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>as announced at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cWest Side Story\u201d songwriter\u2019s assets totaled approximately $75 million, according to papers accompanying his 2017 will filed in Manhattan Surrogate\u2019s court last month.<\/p>\n<p>Sondheim designated his wealth \u2014 including his personal effects, the rights to his music and literary works and everything else \u2014 to go into the Stephen J. Sondheim Revocable Trust, the will says.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-2019.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Stephen Sondheim.\" class=\"wp-image-20935409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-2019.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-2019.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-2019.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Stephen Sondheim left his nearly $75 million estate to his husband, charities and other friends.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He named Pappas and another man as the executors of his estate, according to the will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStephen 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,\u201d a source, a New York trust and estate lawyer who is not connected to Sondheim\u2019s case, told The Post. \u201cAlso, it keeps order of his intellectual property \u2026 there is somebody who is managing his musical legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/xmas-films-west-side-story-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"West Side Story.\" class=\"wp-image-20935421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/xmas-films-west-side-story-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/xmas-films-west-side-story-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/xmas-films-west-side-story-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/xmas-films-west-side-story-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Stephen Sondheim\u2019s personal effects, the rights to his music and literary works and everything else will go into the Stephen J. Sondheim Revocable Trust.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Niko Tavernise\/\u00a9 20th Century Studios\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The world-renowned theater great designated 20 people and charities as beneficiaries to his trust, including his husband Jeffrey Romley, the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of New York City, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Dramatists Guild Fund and the Irish Repertory Theater Company.<\/p>\n<p>Sondheim also named the Stephen Sondheim Foundation as a beneficiary, but court papers say the foundation is \u201cto be created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sondheim\u2019s \u201cInto the Woods\u201d collaborator and director James Lapine is listed as a beneficiary to the trust.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/sondheim-romley-2455205.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Stephen Sondheim and Jeff Romley.\" class=\"wp-image-20935836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/sondheim-romley-2455205.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/sondheim-romley-2455205.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/sondheim-romley-2455205.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Stephen Sondheim and husband Jeff Romley at the 2013 Library Lions Gala.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Clint Spaulding\/PatrickMcMullan.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other inheritors are home designer Charles Peter Wooster, who was Sondheim\u2019s close friend and lived on Sondheim\u2019s Roxbury Connecticut property in a carriage house, and Rob Girard, a gardener who tended to Wooster\u2019s garden for 14 years, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/12\/garden\/a-passion-and-then-a-solace.html\">according to the New York Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Seven others are listed as beneficiaries to the trust, including playwright Peter Jones, with whom Sondheim had a relationship when he was 60, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-10247791\/Stephen-Sondheim-dead-91-Broadway-legend-passes-away-suddenly.html\">according to the Daily Mail<\/a>, and <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s called a pour-over will where everything goes to the trust,\u201d the lawyer source said. \u201cIt is a very classic estate planning technique.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"761\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-1997.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Stephen Sondheim.\" class=\"wp-image-20935424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-1997.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-1997.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-1997.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-1997.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Stephen Sondheim designated the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of New York City, the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as trust beneficiaries.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Douglas Elbinger\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The source added, \u201cThe trust will certainly tell the full story but we don\u2019t have a copy of that. We can safely assume that the names of people listed in the probate petition are beneficiaries and will be receiving something but we don\u2019t know how much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irish Repertory Theater co-founders Ciar\u00e1n\u00a0O\u2019Reilly and Charlotte Moore called the bequest \u201ca lovely surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sondheim \u201cnever failed to honor us with his staunch support \u2026 especially of our musicals and musical adaptations,\u201d their statement continued. \u201cHaving \u2018Himself\u2019 in our audience, while absolutely terrifying, confirmed our right to venture into the mysterious worlds in which he was the undisputed master.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"749\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-obama.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama (R) presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to theater composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.\" class=\"wp-image-20935430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-obama.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-obama.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-obama.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-obama.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Stephen Sondheim was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-President Barack Obama in 2015.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Alex Wong\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whitney Donhauser, the Ronay Menschel Director of Museum of the City of New York, said in a statement, \u201cWe feel honored that Stephen Sondheim \u2014 theater titan, lifelong New Yorker, and 2013 Louis Auchincloss Prize recipient \u2014 recognized our mission as New York\u2019s storyteller by including us as a beneficiary of his trust. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis generous contribution allows us to continue sharing the powerful, diverse, and important role of the theater in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Library of Congress said it \u201chas enjoyed a long and warm relationship with Stephen Sondheim and our hearts broke when we learned of his passing. We hope to celebrate his life and achievements as part of his archival legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-1962.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Stephen Sondheim in 1962.\" class=\"wp-image-20935434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-1962.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-1962.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-1962.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stephen-sondheim-1962.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>91-year-old Stephen Sondheim died suddenly at his Roxbury, Connecticut home in November.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Michael Hardy\/Express\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pappas, Romley, Lapine and a rep for the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Smithsonian said they hadn\u2019t yet been notified about the bequest.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Jones, a lawyer for Sondheim\u2019s estate, and the Dramatists Guild all did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Wooster and Girard could not be reached for comment.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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