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Joy Silverman
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Joy Silverman (born April 8, 1947) is an American socialite and Republican fundraiser. Biography Silverman was born Joy Fererh to a Jewish family of modest means on April 8, 1947, the daughter of Jeanette (née Rothenberg) and Ben Fererh. In 1951, her parents divorced and in 1955, she moved to Great Neck, New York with her mother's new husband, Marc Germont, a French Jew. After Bush's victory, Bush's brother, Jonathan Bush and Republican Party Chairman Richard N. Bond recommended her for an ambassadorship and she was nominated as United States Ambassador to Barbados. When Alvin Bibbs Wolosoff died in 1984, Wachtler served as executor of his $24 million estate and protected Silverman's $2.4 million inheritance Prosecutors alleged that he demanded a $20,000 blackmail payment in exchange for turning over compromising photographs and tapes of Silverman with her then boyfriend, attorney David Samson. He eventually pleaded guilty to harassing Silverman and threatening to kidnap her daughter. Wachtler resigned as a judge and from the bar; and was sentenced to 15 months, but received time off for good behavior. In 1977, she married recently divorced New York financier and millionaire Jeffrey Silverman. Jeffrey Silverman remarried but later committed suicide.<ref name=Everything /> 
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