US attorney Robert M Pennoyer, the personal representative of the eccentric racing breeder, revealed his efforts to retrieve her hugely valuable personal effects after she sold her estate, Palmerstown House, to Jim Mansfield in the late 1990s.
The lawyer in charge of the estate of the late American heiress Anne Bullitt has revealed how he was once told a missing Picasso from her Irish stately home was hidden in the back of a Maserati car.
It catalogues the deadly rise of Ireland’s drug lords and some of the more dramatic episodes among the hugely wealthy cartels. The book recalls how it was 2009 before the High Court finally heard that the case over the estate had been settled and representatives of the William C Bullitt Foundation could finally inspect the mansion.
“I think the politicians were afraid of him and the police were afraid of him. Everyone seemed to be afraid of him.” “She asked me to write the will and to be the executor. I explained to her that it was normal to name a member of the family but she was insistent that she wanted me to take on the role.A love of horses had brought the heiress and her father to Ireland with Palmerstown House purchased by him for €58,000 so she could pursue a career as a breeder and trainer.
Pennoyer had repeatedly asked Anne to have an inventory of the contents drawn up but she’d refused, while Mansfield Snr insisted that his purchase included everything in it.