Closing arguments were scheduled to resume Monday at the Manhattan trial of Anthony Marshall and his co-defendant, attorney Francis Morrissey. Prosecutors say Astor who died in 2007 at age 105 wasn't competent to sign documents that increased Marshall's share of her $198 million estate. The defense says that although she was suffering from Alzheimer's, the philanthropist had lucid moments. On Friday, the prosecutor said Astor signed a letter in 2003, giving her son $5 million. He said that on the same day, she was too confused to know she was in her own house. Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann called it further proof that Marshall took advantage of Astor. Astor was born March 30, 1902. She died of pneumonia at Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. in 2007 at the age of 105.
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