The Nation - News from Sept. 12, 1989

A probate judge in Westport, Conn., ruled in favor of the widow of Rep. Stewart B. McKinney (R-Conn.), who died of AIDS-related disease in 1987, denying the claim of a Georgia man who said he was McKinney’s lover, officials said. Arnold R. Denson, 34, sought to have Lucie McKinney removed as the administrator of McKinney’s estate because he claimed he was being denied benefits assigned to him in McKinney’s will. Probate Judge Earl Capuano also upheld a claim filed on the estate by Lucie McKinney, who testified her husband borrowed more than $430,000 from her trust fund. A real estate agent in Whitesburg, Ga., Denson was one of three beneficiaries named in the will of McKinney, who died in 1987 at 56 from a bacterial infection related to AIDS. Denson could appeal the decision.