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Jurors are looking closely at spending on Brooke Astor’s former summer home as they deliberate in the Manhattan fraud case against the philanthropist’s son and an estate lawyer.

Jurors asked Tuesday to see evidence on expenses related to the house in Northeast Harbor, Me. One charge against Astor’s son, Anthony Marshall, accuses him of using her money to pay such costs after she gave him the house.

Prosecutors say Marshall and attorney Francis X. Morrissey exploited Astor’s mental decline to plunder her nearly $200 million fortune. She was 105 at her death in 2007.

Defense lawyers say Marshall had authority to give himself gifts with Astor’s money, and she was lucid when she changed her will to benefit him.

Deliberations are to continue Wednesday.

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