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Revision as of 01:15, 8 February 2007 by Ossipewsk (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Generosa Rand (March 22, 1956 in Laguna Beach, California - August 22, 2003 in New York City) was the widow of murdered New York businessman and multimillionaire Ted Ammon.
She graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1981, and moved to New York to be an artist. She met Ammon when she called him after he failed to keep an appointment for an apartment she was to show him; they married in 1986 and adopted a twin boy and girl from the Ukraine, Alexa and Gregory. They were about to finalize their divorce in October 2001 when Ted was found beaten to death. As Ted had failed to change his will, Generosa inherited the bulk of his estate, estimated at USD $150 million.
On January 15, 2002, she married her boyfriend, Daniel Pelosi, an unlicensed electrician whom she met when he, literally, showed up at the doorstep of her Manhattan townhouse because he was told she was hiring workers for a remodeling job. Ammon's bank, J. P. Morgan, took the unusual step of challenging Generosa as co-executor of his estate. While dying of breast cancer, she was offered immunity from prosecution to testify against Pelosi before a grand jury, but refused. She cut Pelosi out of her will, but gave him USD $2 million for legal expenses.She left her money to her two kids.
Generosa appointed her nanny, Kathryn Mayne, legal guardian of her and Ted's adopted twins Alexa and Gregory. She bequeathed the house Ammon was murdered in to Mayne to raise the twins in. However in 2005 full custody of the twins was awarded to Ted's sister. Pelosi was convicted of Ammon's murder on 13 December, 2004.
Generosa was played by Poppy Montgomery in the 2005 TV-movie Murder in the Hamptons.