The siblings allege that his greedy son abused his wealthy mother, forcing her to climb the stairs without a cane, leading to her premature death and a brutal fall.
Jeffrey Cutler, 43, stole his philanthropist mother Cecilia’s $10 million fortune after dipping into her expensive wine collection at her Westchester County mansion and removing a diamond from her ring. In order to make a difference, he cut off his brother and sister from medical decisions. That’s what the impassioned brothers claim in an explosive new lawsuit.
But Jeffrey Cutler insists the fiery claims are “all bullshit” and that his family-turned-plaintiffs, Robert, 45, and Cynthia Triggs, 45, are only after his mother’s money. I portrayed them as real, ruthless children.
“They are claiming all sorts of things. None of it is true,” he told the Post, claiming that the brothers did not even attend their mother’s funeral.
A lawsuit filed this week brings a litany of accusations against Jeffrey, including that he directed doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester not to intubate the mother of three, resulting in a 2022 This includes suffocation to death on April 19, 2019.
A month ago, an 82-year-old woman who previously ran a charitable foundation was hospitalized after Jeffrey allegedly “ordered” her to climb the stairs of a luxury Bronxville mansion without a cane, causing her to fall and injure herself. carried away. This is what her head looks like, the complaint states.
“In addition to ignoring her health issues upon information and belief, Defendant Jeffrey physically and verbally abused the decedent and removed jewelry, art, and the decedent’s wine collection. and stole various items of her personal property, including a wine bottle,” the lawsuit alleges.
Allegedly, Jeffrey moved in with his father and mother Kenneth in 2012. Kenneth, a former general counsel and partner at a major investment management firm, passed away in 2015.
From then on, Jeffrey began receiving $125,000 in spending allowances, according to the complaint. Mr. Jeffrey denied the allowance in an interview with the Post this week.
According to the suit, Cutler forced his mother to change her will in 2017 and collected most of her mother’s estate, which totaled more than $10 million at the time of her death. Allegedly, the three children were originally supposed to divide the estate equally.
Triggs and Robert, the attorney representing her and her sister in the lawsuit, were each left with $100,000, according to the lawsuit. Cecilia raised her five children with her husband, two of whom preceded her in death.
The plaintiffs are seeking up to $15 million in damages, including $6.7 million in inherited property.
Cecilia suffered brain trauma in the alleged stairwell incident in March 2022 and was taken to hospital, where Triggs and Robert discovered that the ring she was wearing was missing a diamond and the prongs were missing. They found one of them bent, and the plaintiffs accused Jeffrey of taking drugs. That’s in their lawsuit.
The mother’s condition improved after surgery and she was sent to Slane Brook Manor, a nursing home in Scarsdale, but her cognitive abilities were “severely impaired” and she was unable to answer questions, according to the complaint.
Around the same time, doctors worked out an agreement that required Triggs, Robert and Jeffrey to each approve medical decisions made for their mother, according to legal documents.
But the lawsuit alleges that on April 7, 2022, when Robert filed in state court in Westchester to take over guardianship after learning of his ailing mother’s fall and the alleged cause of the missing diamond, the family Relations deteriorated rapidly.
When Jeffrey discovered his brother had moved away, he allegedly filled out a form pretending to be his mother’s sole guardian at the nursing home and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment if the situation arose.
The matriarch returned to NewYork-Presbyterian on April 17, 2022, after suffering respiratory failure and was placed on a ventilator, the children said. When her help began to falter, Cutler decided not to intubate her mother, over the opinion of her two other siblings, the lawsuit alleges.
NewYork-Presbyterian Church and Sprain Brook Manor are also named defendants in the lawsuit, accusing them of “recklessly” following Jeffrey’s instructions at the nursing home and hospital, the lawsuit states.
Sprain Brook declined to comment, and NewYork-Presbyterian did not return messages seeking comment.
Jeffrey objected to the entire lawsuit, blaming his siblings for allegedly not attending their mother and father’s funerals. She also claimed that she had not spoken to her mother in 10 years since 2012.
Jeffrey said in a recent interview that he was not even in the room when his mother collapsed inside the house, and that he believed her mother likely suffered from an ongoing brain disease. She also said she did not use a cane to help her walk.
He claimed that the diamond had fallen from his mother’s ring at least a month earlier and did not appear until well before his mother was taken to the hospital.
Also, when the nurse was filling out the paperwork to end life-saving treatment at a special nursing home, when the nurse asked the mother, the mother said, “I want to go there in peace,” but at the time, the mother’s mental state was He also claimed that it was unclear what his abilities were. .
“I know I’ve done nothing wrong,” he declared, adding, “My brother hates me,” adding that the lawsuit’s accusations are “utter nonsense.” .
He accused his brothers of being angry that they received far less inheritance than he did.
Geoffria’s legal team did not respond to an email seeking comment.
Robert Cutler declined to comment when reached Monday and did not return text messages Tuesday following his brother’s allegations.
Cecilia Cutler was president of the Kenneth and Cecilia B. Cutler Foundation, which supported many philanthropic causes.
“She was a very caring woman,” Jeffrey said.
