[3] Nina Zagat was an associate with the Wall Street white shoe firm Shearman & Sterling,[4] where she gained notability acting as Seward Johnson's attorney and author and executor of his 1983 will.
She represented his widow, Barbara "Basia" Piasecka Johnson, while the will was contested by his children; The Washington Post quotes an affidavit by the children's attorney that described her relationship to her client as "a contemporary, traveling companion and close personal friend whose recompense for loyalty to and support of Basia was the extraordinary compensation."
Aside from a review in the paper, the survey's 30-point scale for food, service, and décor—and its quirky comments submitted by readers—was pretty much all that mattered to restaurateurs.
[6] The Jewish-American couple have two sons, Ted and John,[1] and live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York.
[8] On November 15, 1990, Tim Zagat was watching Dances With Wolves at a Loews movie theater in New York City.