Bruce Wasserstein’s mistress says their daughter has been cut from the family’s billions

The legal war between the children of the late billionaire Bruce Wasserstein’s children and his mistress rages on, 14 years after he died after a short illness.

Lawyers representing Sky, the 15-year-old daughter Wasserstein shared with his partner, Erin McCarthy, filed paperwork with the court on Tuesday accusing his five legitimate children of stripping the teen of her birthright, reports Page six.

In 2015, Forbes valued Wasserstein’s assets at $2.4 billion.

In the new lawsuit, McCarthy’s lawyers are calling the five children “evil stepsisters” in reference to Cinderella. Part of the suit reads, “There is no Prince Charming in the Wasserstein family to come and rescue Sky.”

The lawsuit charges the children with “ongoing conspiracy, through psychological and economic harassment … to deprive Sky of her rightful share of her father’s multibillion-dollar estate and to exile her from the Wasserstein family.”

According to the Page Six report, Sky received $30,000 in child support and also set aside a trust for her worth millions.

An investment banking mogul, Wasserstein had a stellar career on Wall Street, where he made a name for himself as a corporate raider in the 1980s. Pictured: Bruce Wasserstein and Wendy Wasserstein attend the Bank Street College of Education annual dinner in 2004

Lawyers representing Sky filed paperwork with the court on Tuesday accusing Wasserstein’s five legitimate children, including Vox Media president Pamela Wasserstein, of stripping the teen of her birthright. Pictured: Pamela (left), Julianna Margulies (center), and Joy Nash (right) attend Vulture Festival

Following the filing of the lawsuit, a statement from the Wasserstein family called the legal action “meritorious” and said the estate has been “divided into portions of equal value to each of his six heirs, and a judge overruled the estate division framework years ago.” .’

An investment banking mogul, Wasserstein had a stellar career on Wall Street, where he made a name for himself as a corporate raider in the 1980s. He used part of the revenue to buy New York Magazine.

The billions he made were poured into breathtaking properties, including a duplex penthouse in Manhattan on Fifth Avenue and a sprawling mansion in the Hamptons.

There’s also a ranch in California’s Santa Barbara and an apartment in Paris, along with the sprawling 26-acre Hamptons estate known as Cranberry Dune, where wealthy neighbors include Jerry Seinfeld.

After his death, Wasserstein’s children were ordered to split the values ​​of the properties.

But according to papers filed Tuesday in New York’s Surrogate’s Court, Sky’s half-sister Pamela Wasserstein — the 45-year-old president of Vox Media — has been scheming with her siblings to avoid getting her entire inheritance.

The lawsuit read: ‘This campaign against Sky has been continued with particular zeal by Pam, who serves as Sky’s trustee in the face of a plethora of conflict and self-dealing.

“Pam, through her bullying, ostracism, and neglect of Sky… makes even the behavior of Cinderella’s evil stepsisters Drizella and Anastasia seem mild.”

It argued that ‘contrary to Bruce’s wishes and intentions, the Sibling Trustees have rebuffed Sky’s attempts to establish a relationship with them’ and ‘have gone so far as to try to remove her from the Wasserstein family tree. to clear’.

It added that the siblings never transferred the $1 million Wasserstein left Sky in his will.

Tuesday’s filing marks the second time Sky has sued its share of the estate.

Tuesday’s filing marks the second time Sky has sued its share of the estate. Pictured: Wendy Wasserstein (left) and Samantha Schweitzer (right) attend the 2004 Bank Street College of Education Annual Dinner

Pam Wasserstein said in a 2012 court statement that sharing Cranberry Dune with McCarthy and Sky would be “a source of unimaginable stress and trauma for my brothers and me”

In 2019, her lawyers alleged that her five half-siblings attempted to cheat her out of the value of her father’s Hamptons home when they divided the $2.3 billion estate.

McCarthy, who gave birth to Sky in 2008 when Wasserstein was still married to his third wife, has claimed that her half-siblings only agreed to give Sky her share of his property if she and the girl promised never to move the houses to visit.

Pam Wasserstein said in a 2012 court statement that sharing Cranberry Dune with McCarthy and Sky “would be a source of unimaginable stress and trauma for my brothers and me.”

“We’d rather sell these homes than live under those conditions.”

The Wasserstein kids are said to believe that McCarthy split up their family and accused her of breaking into Cranberry Dune one night when Sky was a baby.

McCarthy has denied these claims.

In a statement to Page Six, Sky’s attorney William D. Zabel said: “No amount of money can undo the psychological damage done to a young woman who, since she was three years old (she is now 14), has been the target of an insidious, ruthless conspiracy to banish her from her family.’

Her co-lawyer Taleah Jennings also said: “We are seeking damages for Sky in the amount of no less than $100 million, which is a small portion of what her father left for his children to share equally.”

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the executors of the estate and trustees of his family trust said: “Mr. Wasserstein’s estate and family trusts were divided into portions of equal value for each of his six heirs, and a judge signed the asset division framework years ago.

“The executors and trustees have at all times acted in accordance with their fiduciary duties. We regret that this matter is still being litigated and will defend ourselves vigorously against these meritorious objections.”