What happened instead took two years and was negotiated, and the mechanism was this: Arthur Vance and the company bought Julian’s equity out over time, at a valuation set by a third expert, funded by a combination of new debt and a seller note, and the proceeds went into the queue, and the queue paid out in order, and at the end of it there was a remainder and the remainder came to me.

The Greenwich house took nineteen months to sell, because a house that is the subject of a fraudulent transfer finding with a contested title history is not a house that moves briskly.

And Julian’s mother sued.

I had not expected that and I should have.

Her position was that she was a good-faith owner of that house since 2011 and that she had been made a defendant in her own son’s disaster.

She was seventy-six.