Patricia Cornwell Fortune Drained by Managers

Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell is suing her financial advisers for mishandling her funds and losing approximately $40 million.

Cornwell says that Anchin, Block & Anchin, a firm in New York, mishandled her assets along with those of her wife, Staci Gruber, a neuroscientist at Harvard.

According to the lawsuit:

"Ms. Cornwell is a bestselling crime novelist whose ability to write is dependent upon the ability to avoid distractions.  A quiet, uninterrupted environment, free of the distractions of managing her business and her assets, was essential to her ability to write and to meet her deadlines. Further, Ms. Cornwell openly acknowledges her diagnosis with a mood disorder known as bipolar disorder, which, although controlled without medication, has contributed to her belief that it is prudent for her to employ others to manage her business affairs."

Cornwell alleges that company execs mishandled her investment properties and taxes...and even went so far as to write a $5,000 check as a bat mitzvah gift for one of the exec's daughters!

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