R.I. Judge Lifts Documents' Seal on Widow's $60 Million Gift to Legion of Christ

By Richard C. Dujardin
Providence Journal
January 23, 2013

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Agreeing with The Providence Journal and certain other media outlets, a state judge has ordered the unsealing of documents relating to a $60 million bequest that the late Gabrielle Mee left to the scandal-plagued Legion of Christ.

Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein ordered the unsealing on Wednesday, granting a request brought by The Providence Journal, New York Times, National Catholic Reporter and the Associated Press.

Mee's niece, Mary Lou Dauray of Sausalito, Calif., has been challenging the distribution of her aunt's assets, claiming that the Legion of Christ exercised undue influence on her aunt when it convinced her to donate all her money to the order before she died in 2008 at age 96. The order owns Mater Ecclesiae College in Smithfield.