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		</div><h6><span style="color: #2b2323;"><strong>Death in troubled household of 1960s counter-cultural icon whose legacy has sparked a bitter feud in among family members</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2323;"><strong>Mary Max wife of famous pop artist Peter Max, 81, killed herself in their Manhattan apt amid a bitter legal battle with his adult children over the icon&#8217;s fortune</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2323;"><strong>52-year-old Mary, who died of nitrogen asphyxiation, was found dead by a friend, an apparent suicide in her Manhattan apt on Sunday night</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2323;"><strong>She was the wife of famed pop artist Peter Max Finkelstein, better known as Peter Max</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2323;"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">Her 81-year-old</span><span style="font-size: inherit;"> husband of more than 20 years, suffers from an advanced form of dementia</span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2323;"><strong>Her death comes amid a bitter legal battle with other members of the Max family about Peter&#8217;s artwork and his declining health </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2323;"><strong>Mary has been locked in a legal battle with her husband&#8217;s estranged son son, Adam, over the estate for the past five years</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2323;"><strong>Adam Max sued his stepmother in 2015 accusing her of attempting to kill his father so that she could take control of his multi-million dollar art collection</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #2b2323;"><strong>Mary counter-sued, accusing her stepson of stealing $4.3m of artwork given to her in a prenuptial agreement </strong></span></h6>
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<div class="share-count"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mary Max, the wife of celebrated artist Peter Max, killed herself in her apartment on Manhattan&#8217;s Upper West Side over the weekend.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">The 52-year-old was found dead in the couple&#8217;s 15th floor apartment on Riverside Drive near West 84th Street on Sunday night, according to police.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mary, who was found dead in the apartment by a friend, died of nitrogen asphyxiation.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Her death comes amid a bitter legal battle with other members of the Max family about her 81-year-old husband&#8217;s artwork and his declining health.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Peter, her husband of more than 20 years, suffers from an advanced form of dementia.<br />
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-321338" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mary-Max-right-with-husband-Peter-Max-left-1.jpg" alt="Mary Max [right], with husband Peter Max [left] 1" width="593" height="836" /><span style="font-size: inherit;"><strong>Mary Max [right], seen with her pop artist husband Peter Max [left], circa 2009, has been embroiled in a ongoing feud with her stepson Adam Max ever since he sued her in 2015 after accusing her of attempting to kill his father so that she could take control of his multi-million dollar art collection</strong></span></h6>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mary had been embroiled in a ongoing feud with her stepson Adam Max ever since he sued her in 2015 after accusing her of attempting to kill his father so that she could take control of his multi-million dollar art collection.</span></div>
<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">In turn, Mary accused her stepson of stealing $4.3million worth of artwork that her husband had given her in a prenuptial agreement.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">The artist&#8217;s mental state has deteriorated significantly in recent years as the legal battles between his family have continued in court.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mary asked a court four years ago to appoint a guardian to oversee her husband&#8217;s business after Adam and three business associates took over the artist&#8217;s studio.<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">They increased production and profit through a series of art auctions on cruise ships, although the artiste reportedly <a class="class" style="font-size: inherit;" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/business/peter-max-dementia-cruise-ship-auctions.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">was too ill to paint and had not done so</a></span><span style="font-size: inherit;">, in nearly four years.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">They claimed that mid-century pop icon was just signing his name to other artists work that mimicked the colorful and psychedelic style that made him such a hit with hippy set in the 1960s and 1970s.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">After the court granted Mary&#8217;s request for a guardian, Adam removed his father from his home and moved him around New York for more than a month.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">In a series of damning accusations, Mary accused Adam of concealing the whereabouts of Peter and effectively &#8216;kidnapping&#8217; him.</span></div>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone wp-image-321343" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mary-Max-right-with-husband-Peter-Max-left-6.jpg" alt="Mary Max [right], with husband Peter Max [left] 6" width="791" height="941" /><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mary Max, 52, seen [right] with her 81-year-old husband&#8217;s Peter Max [left], last year was found dead in her Riverside Drive apt on Sunday evening, amidst a bitter legal battle with her stepson Adam Max, 49, over her husband&#8217;s artwork</span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-321342" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mary-Maxs-New-City-apt-1.jpg" alt="Mary Max's New City apt 1" width="632" height="437" /><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">The embattled artiste&#8217;s wife was found dead in her New York City apartment [photo], on Sunday, according to police </span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-321375" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Peter-Max-and-Bill-Clinton-2.jpg" alt="Peter Max and Bill Clinton 2" width="1024" height="685" /><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">Pop artist king Peter Max [right], is seen presenting a portrait to President Bill Clinton[left], in New York, in 2002</span></strong></h6>
<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Adam retorted that he was protecting his father from Mary&#8217;s verbal and physical abuse, describing her as neglectful.</span></div>
<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">That view that was later supported by the guardian Mary appointed herself.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Members of household staff also accused Mary of neglecting her husband, saying she withheld food and even put &#8216;large Brazil nuts&#8217; in his smoothies that acted as a choking hazard.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">In a transcript of a recorded interview seen in court, Mary discussed with her driver about hiring a goon to intimidate her husband and to damage his painting hand.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">However, one court-appointed lawyer claimed that Peter stated his love for his wife several times and that removing him from his home could have been detrimental to his well-being.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">A judge ordered Peter to be returned to his wife&#8217;s care at their Riverside Drive home and that a guardian oversee both his business and personal affairs.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Peter&#8217;s daughter Libra, who lives in Los Angeles, took over her father&#8217;s studio in January and filed a lawsuit to stop her brother from being able to interact with the company.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mary was the famed artist&#8217;s second wife.<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">He married Elizabeth Nance in 1963 and the pair had two children, Adam Cosmo and Libra Astro, before they divorced in 1976.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">He went on to have a string of high profile relationships before meeting Mary Balkin on a Manhattan sidewalk in 1996.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mary, a blonde with a pixie cut, caught Peter&#8217;s eye. He approached her and introduced himself saying: &#8216;I&#8217;ve been painting your profile my entire life.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">They married a year later and the wedding was officiated by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.</span></div>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-321347" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mary-Max-right-with-husband-Peter-Max-left-2.jpg" alt="Mary Max [right], with husband Peter Max [left] 2" width="616" height="845" />Berlin-born Peter (left) rose to fame in the 1960s, when he became known for his psychedelic art and pop art. He married Mary Baldwin (right) in 1997. </strong></span></div>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-321377" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Peter-Max-3.jpg" alt="Peter Max 3" width="2048" height="1365" /><span style="font-size: inherit;">Peter pictured at home in New York in 1967, before he met Mary</span></strong></div>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-321366" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Mary-and-Peter-Max-at-their-wedding-in-1997.jpg" alt="Mary and Peter Max at their wedding in 1997" width="980" height="596" /><strong>Peter Max Finkelstein <span style="font-size: inherit;">with Mary Balkin on their Wedding day in 1997 </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">: </span></span><span style="font-size: inherit;">The transcript of a recorded interview submitted in court, has Mary discussing with her driver about hiring a thug to intimidate her husband and to damage his painting hand. But Peter has said he always loved Mary.</span></strong></div>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-321365" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Peter-Max-and-daughter-Libra-1.jpg" alt="Peter Max and daughter Libra 1" width="1015" height="676" />Peter Max with his daughter Libra [left]. She has took over her father&#8217;s studio in January and filed a lawsuit to stop her brother, Adam, from being able to interact with the company. </span></strong></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Peter&#8217;s artwork &#8211; renowned for its colorful and psychedelic style &#8211; made him a counter-cultural icon.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">At the height of his popularity, he was creating art for the likes of the Super Bowl, World Cup, the U.S. Open, and the White House law.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">His works featured on everything from bed sheets to cereal boxes, to postage stamps and a chunk of the Berlin Wall.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Peter later expanded his partnership with Park West Gallery and it became a name familiar to anyone who has vacationed on a major cruise line, including Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, and Carnival.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Cruise ship auctions provide the bulk of Park West Gallery&#8217;s revenue and a &#8216;Peter Max original&#8217; is their biggest sell for customers who are willing to pay up to $30,000 for one.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">His name has become so intertwined with cruise ships &#8211; who can get as much as a 40 percent cut from Park West sales &#8211; that Norwegian even has an entire Peter Max-themed ship.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">The ship&#8217;s hull is adorned with his Statue of Liberty.<br />
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-321341" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Portrait-of-Barack-Obama-by-Peter-Max-1.jpg" alt="Portrait of Barack Obama by Peter Max 1" width="627" height="822" /></strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><strong>Peter famously painted world leaders, including Barack Obama [photo], and even presented art to Bill Clinton</strong><br />
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">B</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">erlin-born Peter rose to fame in the 1960s, when he became known for his psychedelic art and pop art.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">The son of German Jews, born on October 19, 1937, he fled Berlin as a baby and grew up in Shanghai for the first decade of his life, before moving to and Israel and eventually settling in Brooklyn.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">In the 1960s, he set up an art studio in Manhattan with his friend Tom Daly, soon he was well- known for his counter-culture pieces as he cemented himself at the heart of the Pop Art movement.<br />
<span style="font-size: inherit;">In 1963, Peter married Elizabeth Nance, and the pair had two children, Adam Cosmo and Libra Astro.<br />
The pair divorce in 1976. He went on to have a string of high profile relationships, before meeting Mary Balkin on a Manhattan sidewalk in 1996.</span></span></span></p>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Mary, a blonde with a pixie cut, caught Peter&#8217;s eye. He approached her and introduced himself saying &#8216;I&#8217;ve been painting your profile my entire life.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">A year later they married. It was officiated by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.<br />
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Peter Max had been commissioned by the US Postal Service to create a stamp, and amassed his fortune through becoming the official artist for dozens of major events including the World Series, the 1994 World Cup, the Super Bowl, the Grammy Awards, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">He has also been the official artist for the US Winter Olympics team and his work is very popular on cruise ship auctions. In 2015, he painted a cruise ship, part of Norwegian&#8217;s fleet.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: inherit;">Peter&#8217;s work is very popular on cruise ship auctions. In 2015, he painted a cruise ship, part of Norwegian&#8217;s fleet, the Norweigan Breakaway.<br />
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An icon from the 1960&#8217;s world of pop culture, Max was a contemporary of Andy Warhol, also friends with the Beatles and inspired the famous Yellow Submarine album artwork.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: inherit;">However, as his health waned a bitter struggle for control ensued within his family, as his wife Mary feuded with son Adam.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">The pair fought over the care of Peter, who is suffering from a severe form of dementia, and his pricey art collection.</span></div>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;">The twilight years of Max’s life have produced a pursuit of art-auction profits and a trail of misfortune as surreal as his more enigmatic works.<br />
Peter&#8217;s work is very popular on cruise ship auctions. In 2015, he painted a cruise ship, part of Norwegian&#8217;s fleet, the Norweigan Breakaway.<br />
An icon from the 1960&#8217;s world of pop culture, Max was a contemporary of Andy Warhol, also friends with the Beatles and inspired the famous Yellow Submarine album artwork.<br />
By 2012, the painter&#8217;s mental faculties reportedly &#8216;were beginning to wane.&#8217;<br />
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He would sign books, squiggle designs on cocktail napkins for dinner companions, or hold a brush and put some paint on canvas for public appearances, but he struggled to truly create.<br />
In the next couple of years, Mr. Max stopped painting almost entirely. “The cruise ship art, he signs his name but he doesn’t do a blink of art on there,” one source said.<br />
“He’s not capable of doing it anymore.”<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">In five years of bruising legal drama, the artist’s family, friends and associates have been trading lurid courtroom allegations of kidnapping, hired goons, attempted murder by Brazil nut, and schemes to wring even more money out of what was already one of the most profitable art franchises in modern times.<br />
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With the onset of his his dementia, his estranged son, Adam, and three business associates took over Max’s studio, drastically increasing production for a never-ending series of art auctions on cruise ships, even as the artist himself could hardly paint.</span></div>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-321374" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Peter-Max-themed-Swedish-cruise-ship-1.jpg" alt="Peter Max themed Swedish cruise ship 1" width="1024" height="683" /><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">Max&#8217;s work is very popular on cruise ship auctions. In 2015, he painted a cruise ship, part of Norwegian&#8217;s fleet, the Norweigan Breakaway seen [photo] with the theme based on Lady Liberty</span></strong></h6>
<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Then, in 2015, his wife, Mary, asked a New York court to appoint a guardian to oversee her husband’s business. Soon after her request was granted, Adam took his father out of his home for more than a month, moving him between various locations around New York, creating a furor, drawing protests from his sister and his step-mother.<br />
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Mary Max, wife of famed pop art icon Peter Max, commits suicide in their Manhattan apartment amid bitter court battle with husband’s adult stepchildren over control of dementia afflicted husband’s fortune
