Jurors weighing the Brooke Astor swindle case are in trouble.
On the eighth day of deliberations, the judge urged the eight-woman, four-man panel to play nice after getting a note indicating that their sessions had turned nasty.
One female juror teared up as Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Kirke Bartley gave the exhausted-looking panel a pep talk and massaged its collective ego, urging jurors to be “respectful” in considering each other’s opinion.
“I’m going to ask that you hang in there a bit longer,” Bartley said, calling the jury the best he’s seen in 30 years on the bench.
Jury selection began in March.
The philanthropist’s son, Anthony Marshall, is accused of ripping off more than $60 million in bequests and gifts long promised to city charities.