Wealthy widow's drinking at heart of bitter will disputeLAWRENCE SMITH/FAIRFAX MEDIA Wealthy widow Allison Slater was described as easily manipulated and "an extremely difficult person – swinging from loving to hating people for no apparent reason". A wealthy widow's will has been declared invalid because she may have been on a cocktail of painkillers and alcohol when she made it, a court has heard. Allison Slater and her late husband Paul accumulated an estimated $2 million running a country hotel in England. Slater was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 and made a will splitting her estate equally between her nephews and nieces: Thomas Loosley, Nick Loosley, Kate Powell, Benjamin Powell and Mark Eleveld. A month later, in March 2014, she told Thomas Loosley she found Benjamin and Kate Powell "incredibly irritating" and planned to leave her estate to Thomas and Nick, the court heard.

Source: Stuff April 19, 2017 06:45 UTC