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Abe Hirschfeld’s son kept him alive – and in pain – to complete $300M deal, sister alleges

Elie and Abe Hirschfeld

Elie and Abe Hirschfeld (
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Abe Hirschfeld with daughter Rachel.

Abe Hirschfeld with daughter Rachel. (Daniel Shapiro)

Abe Hirschfeld’s son kept his terminally ill dad alive and in heaps of pain — against the opinion of doctors — so he could complete a $300 million swindle of the octogenarian’s real estate assets, his estranged sister charges in court papers.

“Elie Hirschfeld forced Mt. Sinai Hospital to keep my father alive against multiple doctors and medical advice,” older sister Rachel Hirschfeld claims in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court papers filed Monday.

“He even instructed them not to administer pain medication which, in this instance and specific case, is construed as torture, according to multiple medical experts,” she said, citing medical records attached as exhibits to the case.

On April 17, 2005 Mt. Sinai Dr. S. Nelson wrote ‘I believe this family needs psych intervention…Their behavior in my mind calls into question their capacity to make decisions in the patient’s best interest.”

At the time Elie was his father’s health care proxy and had control over medical decisions.

Rachel, 67, who is battling her brother for control of their parents’ estate, claims she has only recently realized why Elie, 63, kept Abe alive the year before he passed in 2005.

She alleges that there was a provision in an agreement transferring Abe’s real estate holdings that would be canceled if Abe died during the transaction.

In reply papers Elie calls the accusations “fanciful and irrelevant.”

An attorney for the public administrator called the feud a “terrible sibling rivalry” that should be settled outside the legal system.

“It’s distasteful to all how difficult it is for them to see eye to eye,” Steven R. Finkelstein said in a Surrogate’s Court hearing today.

Judge Nora Anderson is expected to rule on whether Rachel can be executor of her parents’ estates in the coming weeks.