NYC banker and heir of wealthy Italian family accused of stealing $4.1M inheritance

Sergio Tupini inherited $7.6 million, a 3rd of the property of his late Italian mom Maria Teresa de Martino, in line with his Manhattan Supreme Courtroom lawsuit from final week.

A brand new lawsuit accuses a New York banker – who's the inheritor of a rich Italian household – of stealing $4.1 million from his sister and brother’s inheritance.

Giorgio Tupini, 36, who works in finance in New York, was quickly entrusted with $7.6 million his dad Sergio Tupini, 71, left him to share together with his two siblings Priscilla, 34, and Federico, 20, in line with the Manhattan Supreme Courtroom lawsuit from final week.

Sergio, a lawyer from Rome, Italy, had gotten the cash from his late mom, Maria Teresa de Martino, the daughter of a rich tobacco industrialist who was value not less than $23 million when she died at 90 in Might 2021, in line with the swimsuit and Sergio’s legal professional.

However Giorgio, who allegedly had the funds transferred from a Switzerland account right into a New York Chase checking account that he managed in July and August of 2020, then vanished, the submitting claims.

“Giorgio, Priscilla, Federico, and Sergio agreed to make use of the Chase Checking account as a brief depository of the kids’s inheritance as a result of the account was out there to obtain the funds at that second,” the swimsuit says. “And since it was assumed (incorrectly) that Giorgio, a financial-services skilled, was the individual best-qualified to manage the account and to later make the mandatory fund transfers to his members of the family.”

Giorgio Tupini, 36, who works in finance in New York, was quickly entrusted with $7.6 million his dad Sergio Tupini, 71, left him to share together with his two siblings, in line with the swimsuit.

Giorgio solely allegedly transferred $1 million to his siblings on February 1, 2022 — even though Federico and Priscilla had been owed simply over $5 million mixed, the submitting claims.

Sergio tried calling and emailing his son on “quite a few events” ever since however Giorgio hasn’t responded and hasn’t despatched anymore of the remaining $4.1 million to his siblings, the courtroom paperwork declare.

Giorgio has since apparently moved out of his Greenpoint, Brooklyn condominium and nobody within the household is aware of the place he's at present dwelling, the swimsuit claims.

Priscilla Tupini and her youthful brother, Federico, are being looped out of their inheritance, their swimsuit claims.

A New York choose on Tuesday granted Sergio’s request to freeze the Chase checking account, although the household doesn’t know the way a lot of their cash stays in it, in line with Sergio’s lawyer Jay Freiberg.

“They needed to get the cash into the title of the three children,” Freiberg informed The Put up. “Giorgio was in finance, the oldest boy, he stated ‘ship it to me in america. I’ll maintain it.’”

“When it comes time to ship it again to Federico and to Priscilla, Giorgio solely gave again $1 million,” Freiberg claimed. “He referred to as it the primary tranche and he’s gone MIA since.”

Sergio Tupini, a lawyer from Rome, Italy, had gotten the cash from his late mom, Maria Teresa de Martino.

“I feel it's pushed by greed and maybe a dispute together with his father,” Freiberg stated of Giorgio’s actions. “He's clearly stealing from his household and it’s fairly critical stuff.”

“It’s unlucky what Giorgio is doing to his siblings and we stay up for the courtroom persevering with to rectify that mistaken,” Freiberg stated.

A working telephone quantity couldn't be discovered for Giorgio. The Put up additionally tried to achieve him for remark through electronic mail and on Instagram.