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Billionaire Conrad Prebys cut his son out of will
SportsFan0000: While he was alive, he never gave any indication it was 1, and it was *absolutely* not 3. After I made contact with my father again at 16, he and my mother remained close for the rest of their lives (sadly, I lost her just a few months before him). Among other things, he used to send her absurdly large floral arrangements every Christmas and birthday. There are lots of pictures of all of us together at my second wedding in 2013.— May 25, 2017 3:04 p.m.
Billionaire Conrad Prebys cut his son out of will
monaghan: As I say in my comment below, I believe my father did what he did because his mind was failing him, and I do not hold it against him, nor do not want to see his (well deserved) reputation tarnished because of it. Debbie paints a very different picture of him, and I'll leave it to you to decide how you think that picture reflects on the two of them.— May 25, 2017 2:58 p.m.
Prebys foundation president Debra Turner sues other board members
I appreciate your accurate and sane assessment of the situation. Don and I went back and forth about what I was willing to say on the record, and that last line comes from a direct quote - but I'll admit I laughed out loud when I actually read it. Pithy, indeed. Regards, Eric— May 24, 2017 5:29 a.m.
Billionaire Conrad Prebys cut his son out of will
It was not my choice for this article to get published, and I promised myself I would not weigh in on it. It's my sincerest wish to put this whole unpleasant matter solidly in the rear view mirror; nevertheless, I loved and respected my father and do not want to see his legacy tarnished, so I feel I need to say a few things... In the 37 years from the time I went looking for my father until the time he died, we never had a significant argument, confrontation, or disagreement. We had a loving relationship and a deep respect for each other. He never gave any indication that that relationship had changed in any way, right up until the time he died - when I was blindsided by incidents at the hospital, the funeral, with the Board, and finally with the trust documents. There's one mistake in Don's article. I did not "expect" $20M, because we never discussed the details of the trust. It wasn't the fact I was written out; it's the cruelty with which it was done, on top of all the other things that had happened. This was never about the money; this was about the realization that my father was harboring a deep animosity toward me during the last year and a half of that 37 year relationship, going to great lengths to hide that animosity, and fantasizing all the while about how much it would hurt me when I learned about it after his death. Imagine no money was involved. Imagine if someone you believed was a close friend or relative died and then had a letter excoriating you read at the funeral. How would that make you feel? The alleged reasons for our falling out have changed significantly with the telling, so I can't really address them, but I ask you, what could possibly explain something like this, particularly given his own missteps in the past? If he really did this in his right mind, then he was at heart a petty and vindictive coward, and no number of things named after him can change that. That's what I believed when I wrote that letter to my son; however, I simply couldn't reconcile that with the Conrad Prebys I knew, so I started doing some homework and talking to people. I'm now sincerely convinced that his mental deterioration started much sooner than I thought and that that was the cause of this bizarre behavior. Indeed, because these actions were so unlike him, it’s really the only evidence I need that his mind had deteriorated. After all, if a man shows up to work with no pants on, no one says “except for that, he was acting pretty normal”. I will end by stressing this: in all the time I knew my father - which was a lot longer than Ms. Turner knew him - I never once heard him say a cruel or vindictive word toward anyone. He was the same person in private as he was in public: genuinely humble, genuinely kind, and genuinely forgiving. That was my father. That’s the man I will remember, and in spite of any ugliness others might bring up in the future, that’s the man San Diego should remember.— May 23, 2017 10:48 a.m.