The longtime live-in girlfriend of Allen Klein, the late Beatles and Rolling Stones manager, has lost her battle to keep $1 million in artwork that she says were gifts from him.
Iris Keitel had tried to gain access to Klein’s gift tax receipts to
prove he had a “practice of making substantial gifts” to others before
he died in 2009.
Manhattan Surrogate’s Court Judge Nora Anderson ruled there was “no correlation.”
“Even if she were able to establish, for example, that decedent
gifted 90 percent of his estate to others, that fact would be useless in
helping her prove decedent gifted anything to her,” Anderson said.
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Keitel, 72, had been warring with Klein’s son Jody Klein, who claimed she hauled off 15 artworks, including a $120,000 painting by Jeanne Rij-Rousseau, to which she wasn’t entitled.
In 2012, Klein’s label, ABKCO, owned by his son, sued Keitel to get back art including a John Lennon drawing “Let’s Have a Dream.”
Klein, whose aggressive management style was blamed for the Beatles’
1970 breakup, lived with Keitel for 30 years on East 58th Street.
Reached by phone, Keitel declined to comment.
Music manager Allen Klein, whose clients included the Rolling Stones and
the Beatles, died in 2009, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s
disease. Klein was 77.
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