For some of Robin’s friends and colleagues, the estate dispute reinforced for them a long-standing discomfort they had felt about Susan, and whether she fully shared the values of her husband and his family on the proper applications of wealth and celebrity. From the moment she was first introduced to Robin’s children, in the days before his open-heart surgery, there were concerns about how smoothly she meshed with the rest of the family—whether she respected Robin’s relationships with Zak, Zelda, and Cody, as well as with their mothers, Valerie and Marsha. When Susan decided to pursue the
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