Christopher Santiago's List: What happens after death?

• He maintained throughout, however, that in spite of their apparent conflicts of interest, neither Reis nor Stamos had conspired to defraud their friend’s estate
• It was a complex, precise, and untenable position that had no place in legal or journalistic narratives of genius, wronged orphans, and art-world wickedness, and he got absolutely hammered for it
• The dialogue is based on Seldes’s account, which is in turn based on my dad’s testimony.
• He never doubted that Reis and Stamos had good intentions, apparently: Reis was already a millionaire and certainly didn’t need Marlborough’s $20,000 director’s salary.
• And Stamos had been negotiating with Marlborough even before Rothko died—a relationship Rothko himself had instigated.
• He was debriefed, deposed, examined, and cross-examined for thousands of pages
• Art News, suggested that Rothko had been murdered.
• The executors were portrayed as vultures, false friends who had simply been waiting to pounce;

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