Ann Marie Egloff, Boston oncologist accused of duping dementia ‘distant’ relative, Jo Ann Paganette into bequeathing a $750K UES apartment in her will as dead woman’s biological daughter now contests the will and proposed sale of the co-op.
Define ethical? A top cancer surgeon has been accused of duping a ‘distant’ relative into signing over her New York City apartment while she was suffering from dementia.
Jo Ann Paganette died at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC on April 30, aged 85, six years after a stroke that brought on her condition.
Her daughter, Georgia Lee Sarah Andrews has now filed a suit against Boston doctor, Ann Marie Egloff, in a bid to stop the surgeon from selling a $749,000 Carnegie Hill co-op that ‘she should have never have inherited’ after allegedly taking advantage of her mother’s fractured mental state, the suit alleges.
Oncologist tries to push biological daughter out of inheritance
The suit comes as Andrews claims she had expected to inherit her mother’s one-bedroom apartment at 152 East 94th Street on NYC’s Upper East Side only to discover Paganette to have changed her will, bequeathing the home to Egloff instead.
Paganetti began showing signs of severe dementia in 2018, after suffering a stroke, Andrews said in her Manhattan Supreme Court filing.
Despite giving Andrews up for adoption in 1966, Paganetti had long pursued a relationship with her biological daughter, making her the beneficiary of her 1986 will, and leaving her the UES co-op, Andrews contended in the legal papers according to the nypost.
Egloff 58, an oncologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, got involved in July 2023, when Paganetti, a former Fashion Institute of Technology professor, landed in the Upper East Side Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
That month, a lawyer representing Egloff showed up and tried to get Paganetti to sign what appeared to be estate planning papers — over the objection of her doctors and while the older woman was ‘under the influence of psychotropic medication,’ according to the lawsuit.
‘Dr. Egloff throughout her involvement in the decedent’s affairs took steps to isolate the decedent from the rest of her family,’ Andrews said in court papers.
A trust was established in March, and the co-op shares were transferred into it by April 18 by AKAM Living Services, a property management firm, who were also named as defendants, according to the nypost.
Egloff tried to claim Andrews was not Paganette’s biological daughter soon after her death, according to the lawsuit, but DNA testing proved otherwise.
Andrews wants a court to stop the sale of her mom’s apartment, which was put on the market last month and in contract by Nov. 8.
Egloff, a neck and head cancer specialist who is also affiliated with Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has since claimed she was unaware of the lawsuit brought on by Paganette’s biological daughter.
