Leslie Ann Mandel’s cockatiels
After her 2015 death, Manhattan entrepreneur Leslie Ann Mandel left $100,000 to her 32 cockatiels, along with a request that the birds continue to reside in her Hamptons home. Mandel asked that her stepson Matthew Herzog, the son of science fiction writer Arthur Herzog, oversee the birds’ trust and ensure that the cockatiels continued to live in the lifestyle to which they were accustomed.
