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Meet the art collector who left $50,000 tips for 2 waitresses in his will

Robert Ellsworth
Robert Ellsworth
An art collector who was worth $200, offered a final tip of $50,000 each to his two favourite waitresses.
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Robert Ellsworth, an art collector who died in August 2014, left $50,000 for each of two waitresses at a Manhattan restaurant.

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According to New York Post, Ellsworth who passed away at 85, left the tip for the waitresses who work at Donohue’s Steak House.

The late art collector who was a regular at the restaurant, included the waitresses, Maurren Donohue-Peters and Maureen Barrie in his will.

Speaking to New York Post, 53-year-old Donohue-Peters said she was shocked  “I just couldn’t believe it. I didn’t expect anything.”

Ellsworth was worth an estimated $200 million before death.

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