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Princeton, donors’ family battle over $880 million
By Laurie Bennett | October 28, 2007 at 8:41am | 0
In 1961, A&P supermarket heir Marie Robertson and her husband, Charles, gave $35 million in stock to Princeton University for its Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Today, the gift is worth more than $880 million.
But the university and the descendants of the couple have spent millions in legal costs in a years-long fight over how the money should be used.
