Part 1
Three weeks after my husband Robert’s funeral, I opened a storage unit he had rented years earlier and discovered that everything I believed about our finances was a lie.
Inside an old navy-blue trunk, I found folders labeled Public Debt and Private Assets.
The public documents showed over six million dollars in liabilities—the same debt our sons, Mark and Lucas, had used to call their father a failure.
But the private documents revealed the truth.
Robert had hidden offshore accounts, real estate holdings, private partnerships, and company shares worth more than eighteen million dollars.
He had not been broke.