What were the odds?
That when outspoken KC comedy legend Craig Glazer and his brothers chipped in to purchase an expensive life insurance policy on their dad several years back, that Stanford’s & Sons founder Stan Glazer would outlive all three of them.
Less than zero, they all thought, but et that’s exactly what happened.
Craig held funerals for both his brothers – Jeff Glazer and Jack Glazer – shortly before checking out himself in 2018 after half watching Patrick Mahomes launch his wildly successful career pre season games from his hospital bed.
Now the last surviving member of the storied Glazer clan ground to a quiet close recently when 90 year-old father Stan went for a dirt nap in Arizona near Tucson.
So much for those crazy Glazer kids cashing in on the pricey policy.
The architect of Stanford & Sons – who married a woman half his age, then ran for mayor of Kansas City in 2003 – has finally checked out.
“No way, he died, huh?” said a stunned Bill Nigro. “He should have gone before the boys.”
Nigro has little nice to say about his longtime Westport business neighbor.
“Because he was a rotten person,” Nigro adds. “I have nothing good to say about him.”
An odd anecdote about the father and sons foursome.
Locals may recall Stan unleashing a high profile lawsuit against his sons in 1998 for refusing to pay him five grand a month for allowing them to take over and run what was left of Stanford’s.
Then in 2016 – two years before his death – Craig described his dad as “a poor man’s version” of Donald Trump.
“He was basically Trump without the umph,” Craig wrote. “Like the Donald, (Stan) had a well known background as a playboy type – flashy, big ego and questionable business successes…Like Trump, Stan had a number of failed business deals over the years and of course the KC Star was all over those.”
Not long after Craig wrote that column, Stan became very sick, was hospitalized and Craig was almost certain he was about to die.
But instead of Craig cashing in, Stan mounted a comeback, Craig and his brothers all died, and Stan sold much of his worldly goods here in a pre-death estate sale – including memorabilia of his deceased sons – and moved with his wife to the Tucson area where I now live.
“If only he took care of his three sons like he took care of his hairpiece,” quipped one reader of Stan’s estate sale and escape from the Cowtown.
At this stage of the game, there’s little public evidence or news of Stan’s passing – either in KC or Arizona…at least that I can find.
So endeth the infamous family…
End of a era full of errors.
Ah, but there were some pretty colorful errors at that!
I only knew the Glazers through your and Craig’s frequent posts. I almost always found them entertaining. Craig and Stan were definitely some of the most colorful characters in KC. It does seem strange that the end of their story is so quiet, because that is one thing they definitely were not.
Excellent point…
My hunch is his wife and her parents – assuming they’re still alive – have pretty much had their fill of Stan (let alone his pesky kids) and are welcoming the opportunity for her to begin anew.
She had a job at a small, private club two years ago between Tucson and Nogales (60 mile stretch), which from what I can tell went south on her. Taking care of Stan – who by the way solicited Craig to hook him up with hookers a handful of years before Craig’s passing, probably wasn’t ‘t the finest remembrance, assuming she even knew or found out about it.
Buying an obit down here would have been mildly expensive and nobody likely would have had a clue as to who he was. If she really wanted to leave some sort of going-away notice, it should have been in the Star, but I can’t find any evidence of that.
So Stan kind of went out Elton John style, one might say…like a candle in the wind.
And that’s part of the difficulty in checking out late in life…family aside, whom is left to inform or bereave? In Stan’s case. Bill Nigro, me to an even lesser extend and whoever he likely screwed over or had some kind of lame affair with.
In a perfect world, Stan would have checked out in his early 80s, Craig and Jeff could have gotten little dough, his ex would be a tad younger and able to bounce back arguably better romantically life would have quietly gone on.
Now, we’ll have to settle for the latter exclusively, with fewer people than I have brain cells giving much if any of a damn.
You know someone is esteemed and well respected when the term “dirt nap” is used to describe his passing away.
Excellent observance, HB…
Glazer’s should have a plaque on the wall at the Woodside Racquet Club. They say they picked up many women from there.
Perhaps…
However, as I recall Craig’s parting with the club was not a pleasant one
I think the reason Craig Glazer was such a man whore was he was seeking validation from women. My ex wife had an affair with Craig in 78-79.
Years later she said the first time she saw his little dick she giggled to herself and thought
“What am I supposed to do with that?” I think his insecurities with his penis size had a lot to do with his behavior.
As a side note, he likely gave her Hep C considering he had a trifecta of risk factors, drug use, prison time, and a man whore.
Yikes, talk about “over sharing”
LOL… it’s called ex-revenge. Dude’s spilling it out.
“If only he took care of his three sons like he took care of his hairpiece,”
quipped one reader of Stan’s estate sale and escape from the Cowtown..
Um, I think this quote came from ex-wife #2 of 3(or 4?) didn’t it?
Dunno