Gail Posner dog, Chihuahua named Conchita is the most spoiled dog in the world. Posner left a $3 million trust fund to Conchita, and two of her other pet dogs. Conchita was the favorite of the late Miami heiress Gail Posner, a daughter of Victor Posner, a master of the hostile takeover who became one of America’s highest-paid executives.
When Ms. Posner died in March at age 67, Conchita and two other dogs inherited the right to live in her seven-bedroom, $8.3 million Miami Beach mansion, their comfort ensured by a $3 million trust fund. In the past, Posner lavished the dog with gold Cadillac Escalade, a diamond Cartier necklace and weekly spa visits.
In an interview with the Miami Herald in 2007, she said the dog’s most precious possession was a Cartier necklace worth $15,000, but the dog choked on it and was refusing to wear it.
“Conchita is the only girl I know who doesn’t consider diamonds her best friend,” Ms. Posner was quoted as saying.
In a 2009 interview, Ms. Posner said Conchita typically accompanied her on lunch dates and then shopping. Ms. Posner said she at one point considered getting the dog her own Range Rover, for transportation to the animal’s weekly spa appointments for manicures and pedicures, but Ms. Posner decided to get herself a new car and gave the dog her gold Cadillac Escalade.
Seven of Gail Posner bodyguards, housekeepers and other personal aides were left a total of $26 million under her will, and some also were allowed to live, rent-free, in the mansion to care for the dogs. Under the terms of Ms. Posner’s trust, the mansion is to be sold after her dogs die, and the proceeds donated to charity.
On the contrast, Posner’s only son, Brett Carr received a just $1 million. He is fighting back with a lawsuit against his mother’s personal aides, who he claims took advantage of his ailing mother in her final days, getting her to substantially alter her last wishes. Household aides, he claims, drugged his sick mother with pain medications and conspired to steal her assets by inducing her to change her will and trust arrangements in 2008.
Among Mr. Carr’s claims is that the aides directed a “deeply disturbed” Ms. Posner to hire a publicist to promote Conchita as “one of the world’s most spoiled dogs”—complete with a four-season wardrobe, full-time staff and diamond jewelry. Mr. Carr’s lawyer, Bruce Katzen, says he believes the publicity campaign was part of a “ruse” to explain why a large trust fund was needed to care for the dogs.