Following the singer's death, the Smith estate licensed his songs for use in a number of film and television projects, such as One Tree Hill, The Girl Next Door, Georgia Rule, and Paranoid Park.

But Dorothy lost an even greater fortune from the Smith estate.

Gerrit Smith's commitment to both the abolition and temperance movements led to the Smith estate in Peterboro becoming a stop on the underground railroad and to Smith building one of the first temperance hotels in the country in Peterboro.

The Smith estate also served as an important meeting place for abolitionists from both New York and other parts of the country, including John Brown and Frederick Douglass.

Mr. Crispo's co-op will soon have its back maintenance paid, though Mr. Crispo had to agree to sell either the apartment he and Mr. Smith lived in, which he is buying from the Smith estate, or a smaller adjacent apartment he owned outright.

Mr. Witkin did visit Smith's studio with the art critic Clement Greenberg, who was one of the executors of the Smith estate and a member of the art circle at Bennington dubbed "the Green Mountain boys."

One of the most expensive properties on the market is the Smith estate on 19.8 acres being offered at $1.4 million by the local Henry Lust Real Estate firm.

Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment and Universal Studios are in negotiation with the Smith estate for an 18-month film rights option on the series.

The Jazz Loft Project, directed by Sam Stephenson at the Center for Documentary Studies in cooperation with CCP and the Smith estate, is devoted to preserving and cataloging the works of photographer W. Eugene Smith.

Had I guaranteed to Douglas (oh, gracefully, of course-there is decorum even among thieves) that the Smith estate would continue to bulwark his administration, then I would have been left undisturbed to do as I liked with the income and had my acting guardianship made legal.