Stephen A's Take: An 84-year-old woman left her entire $1 million estate to a younger man

Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown.

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📝 Key Points from the Story

• An 84-year-old woman from British Columbia, Janet Colville Sutherland Henry, left her entire $1 million estate to a younger man named Simon Garston.
• Garston was a professional companion and male escort whom she met online in 2021.
• They met several times in person before her passing, and she changed her will shortly before she died.
• Her family was unaware of the change until after her death and is now contesting the will.
• The commentary in the script reflects on personal autonomy, the right to choose beneficiaries, and the emotional implications for the family.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
I had to react to this story. Family members are
suing after an eighty four year old British Columbian woman
left her one million estate to a male escort. Janet
Colville Sutherland Henry of North Vancouver changed her will shortly

(00:28):
before she died, leaving her estate to escort Simon Garston.
Henry's husband died in two thousand and four, and following that,
she paid various male escorts for companionship and sexual services.
In February twenty twenty one, a year before she died,
Henry met Garston, who was in his late twenties and

(00:52):
worked as a professional companion and male escort. The two
met via Skype and the significant fees for his services
were discussed and agreed to. They met in person for
the first time in April of twenty twenty one, when
mister Garston came to the deceased home for an overnight visit.
Then met several times for overnight stays in the following weeks.

(01:16):
Their last face to face meeting was for three nights.
A few months before she died, Henry changed her will,
leaving her approximately one million dollar estate to Garston. The
family did not know about the change until after her passing.

(01:41):
This is not going to be the most popular opinion,
I'll confess, But are you challenging her mental acuity? Are
you challenging her cogency? She seems to be an elderly

(02:10):
woman who was well, who was in control of her
faculties and was completely aware of what she was doing.
How do we know this? Because she had several male
escorts and then she met him and she ain't want

(02:33):
nobody else. Ladies and gentlemen in English, that's her brother
that was handling the business. Is that appropriate to say?
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I don't know, but it's true, whatever proclivities she had,
that she could have fulfilled herself and needed to be
fulfilled by somebody else.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
He handled.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
And it might be sad, hell, it might be pathetic,
But if it's her money, it's perfectly within her right
to leave it to whoever she chooses. And if she
chooses to leave it to a man.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Who happens to be a male escort, that she clearly
feels fulfilled her to her lasting days. You know what
I'm saying. How can you not that evidently he did

(03:48):
more for her than she felt her own family did
for her, which is why she left the one million
dollar state to him. Now, I'm not saying it's right.
You would like to think life. There's more things to
life than getting you freak on, But evidently to her

(04:16):
it really really was mad at most was what mattered most.
And she seems very very appreciative of his efforts. And
if that's the case, I'm not saying he spo wasn't
like it. I'm not saying it's not a live bit trifling.

(04:38):
But you gotta live with it. Me myself, you know
how you in your twenties getting excited about that. But
you know, everybody has things that stimulate them in certain ways.
One of my uncles was like that. You know me,

(05:01):
I like a voluptuous figure. My boy Pooley, he wants
you to size of rasputia from norpit I one of
my other boys, he wants you number skin and bones.
But my uncle, his afrodisiac. What turned him almost was money.

(05:26):
If you could make this brother money. He didn't give
a damn whether you were white, black, Asian, Hispanic, fat, skinny,
mid rain, cellulite, firm, skinny, It didn't mean a damn
thing to him. Green was what turned him on. It
really really turned him on. That was him money. I'm

(05:54):
not talking about my Sunds. I swear I'm not talking
about my Sunds. I'm talking about him. But it's the truth.
Everybody got that thing clearly. Until her dying breath at
age eighty four, that was her thing.