Article: Daughter Sues Executors Of Jack Kent Cooke Estate

The teenage daughter of former Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke is mired in debt and was forced to drop out of college for lack of funds, according to a $275 million lawsuit filed yesterday that alleges that the executors of her father's estate defrauded her.

Jacqueline Cooke, 19, currently receives $50,000 a year from a lifetime trust and has collected at least $200,000 from it since her father's death nearly 10 years ago. Her attorney, Benjamin Dick, said the payments are taxed and therefore have been insufficient to meet her needs. Those include her expenses at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she enrolled as a freshman in the fall. Cooke owes the school $23,000 ...

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