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By
Kevin Donovan
Feb. 20, 2021
Son Jonathon and daughter Alexandra face off against each other in a struggle over control of the multibillion-dollar Sherman empire. Meanwhile, Sherman company boss Alex Glasenberg says his goal is to support Barry Sherman’s legacy.
www.thestar.com
''In an interview, Jonathon said while he, one of his father’s estate trustees, initially wanted the estate documents kept secret he has changed his mind and is now hopeful the Star is successful in unsealing them, as they contain information he wants the newspaper to see. “My M.O. was f--- Donovan, I don’t want him prying into my life ... my own personal view has changed ... there is nothing in there that is worth keeping secret.”)
A few months passed and then, a year and a day after the murders, Kay was sitting in his office at Apotex in the afternoon when Jonathon walked in with Apotex president Jeff Watson, an ex-Canadian Football League offensive lineman hired years before by Kay. Jonathon had explained to me in an interview that by late 2018 he had a list of grievances against Kay.''
''According to Jonathon, Kay was “micromanaging” Apotex. Also, Kay was insisting on continuing Barry’s plan to invest $50 million to expand a Florida drug factory Barry had purchased not long before he died. Jonathon disliked Kay’s regular lunches with Frank D’Angelo, a Toronto entrepreneur Barry had backed for more than a decade. It also perturbed Jonathon that Kay had moved into his father’s office (after the police tape came down in early 2018). For decades, the two men had adjacent offices with a connecting door always left open, and Sherman assistant Mauro recalls they would “communicate” by yelling good-naturedly back and forth about the business, life and religion. In the corridor between their two offices were scales, test tubes and an incubator — where Barry did his own drug formulations despite having hundreds of scientists on staff. Kay, Sherman friends say, was “the brother Barry never had.”
''Insiders say Kay was never invited to trustee meetings after he was fired. He later resigned as trustee.
The stumbling block in the family was Alexandra. A nurse by training, with no business experience, she said she became concerned a year after the murders with decisions her brother was making. Decisions, she said, which did not fall in line with the “values and principles” of their late father''
