Dr. Ann Marie Egloff, a prominent cancer surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, is facing accusations from Georgia Lee Sarah Andrews, the daughter of the late Jo Ann Paganetti, of pressuring Paganetti to change her will while she was battling dementia. According to a New York Post report, Andrews alleges that Paganetti, who demonstrated signs of severe dementia following a stroke in 2018, was unduly influenced by her relative, the doctor.
Egloff, 58, became involved in Paganetti's affairs in July 2023 when Paganetti, a former Fashion Institute of Technology professor, was at the Upper East Side Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Andrews argues that Egloff's lawyer had Paganetti sign the estate planning documents despite her doctors' objections and while she was "under the influence of psychotropic medication," as stated in the lawsuit. The conflict escalated after Paganetti's death on April 30, with Egloff selling the one-bedroom co-op that Paganetti had reportedly left to Andrews in a will dated 1986, as per the Daily Mail report.
While Paganetti had initially made Andrews the beneficiary of her co-op on East 94th Street through a will made in 1986, after she passed away at 86 this April, a contested trust supposedly created in March transferred the co-op shares into it by April 18. Egloff was apparently quick to put the property on the market following the transfer, with a sale-in contract by November 8.
Questions about family ties add complexity to the case, as DNA tests confirmed a biological connection between Paganetti, her daughter Andrews, and Egloff, though the exact nature of the relationship is unclear. After Paganetti's death, Egloff allegedly questioned whether Andrews was truly related to Paganetti in an effort to challenge her claim. "Dr. Egloff throughout her involvement in the decedent’s affairs took steps to isolate the decedent from the rest of her family," Andrews claimed in court documents, as reported by the New York Post. AKAM Living Services, the property management firm involved in the transfer of the co-op shares to the trust, is also named in the lawsuit as a defendant.
The apartment in question was listed for $749,000, with no mention of the ongoing legal dispute. The Daily Mail also reported that Paganetti, a former fashion editor and FIT professor, was known for receiving sharp critiques from students in her later years, possibly indicating her cognitive decline.
