HOUSTON—When oilman Alfred C. Glassell Jr. died last year, his final will stated that half of his $500 million fortune should go to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. However, members of Glassell’s family say that the museum and its lawyers forced him to make that bequest and have asked a jury to choose from at least 12 different wills that he executed before his death at the age of 95.

According to Glassell’s final will, his daughter Curry Glassell and her children are set to receive $10 million, a fraction of what is named in other wills, some of which granted them between $100 and $150 million in cash and mineral rights. Jim Hartnett, one of Curry Glassell’s attorneys, says that museum officials took advantage of the late oilman when he was “sick and tired.”

MFA officials counter that Glassell Jr. supported the museum throughout his life, donating the funding for its Glassell School of Art in 1979 and helping to lead a capital campaign in 2002 that raised $112 million for the museum. They say he decided in his final years to focus more on philanthropy. “You may not like it, and you may not agree with it,” one of the museum’s lawyers, David Gerger, told the jury, which will ultimately decide the case. “But that was his right.”

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