Feud is real ‘Succession’
Sister sues over $2B family fortune
In a real-life “Succession” drama, two sisters are warring over a $2 billion family real estate empire that once included the Chrysler building, the Stanhope Hotel and 13 million square feet of Big Apple properties.
The fortune was amassed by Sol Goldman, a father of four who had the city’s largest private real estate portfolio when he died in 1987 at age 70.
Goldman’s daughter Amy — a Democratic donor who once held a $50,000-per-person reception for President Biden — claimed she was cut out of the business by younger sister Jane, who runs the company “with a death grip.”
“Jane’s deep- seated sense of entitlement is matched only by her paranoia,” Amy, 70, claimed in Manhattan Supreme Court papers — which she filed alongside nephew Steven Gurney Goldman — calling the feud “a real-life parallel to . . . Succession.”
Jane, 68, said she’s run the company for 35 years and that Amy is an absent manager who would rather spend her days nurturing her champion heirloom tomatoes.
Jane said of Amy’s lawsuit and TV analogy, “The comparison fits in one respect: both are works of fiction.”
Her sister and nephew are just “hoping to extract disproportionate benefits for themselves from the Goldman family’s real estate,” Jane wrote in court papers filed this week that seek to toss the case.
The rivalry began after their only brother, Allan, died in 2022 and his son Steven Gurney Goldman, 31, a poker player and ranked Settlers of Catan participant, began making “outrageous demands,” Jane’s filing claimed.
“When Jane did not agree, he recruited Amy to commence a series of lawsuits to try and force the outcome he desired,” it said.
Amy and Jane Goldman are each worth about $1 billion thanks to their father’s legacy.
Each of the four siblings were willed a 25% stake in Sol Goldman Investments, a branch of the family holdings of roughly 150 to 200 properties worth more than $2 billion, but they can only cash out in 5% increments every few years.
A lawyer for Amy and Steven declined comment.
Jane’s lawyer, Jason Cyrulnik, called their allegations a “brazen attempt to disavow Sol Goldman’s wishes for the family business and unfairly enrich themselves.”