Did a luxury nursing home hold a 91-year-old woman captive?
Her memory was failing, and the $28,000-a-month assisted living facility wouldn’t let her leave.
From The Times
March 9, 2026

Eric Houston, 69, helped his friend Diana Multare, 91, move into a $28,000-a-month assisted living facility after he noticed her memory was starting to fail. But when Multare decided she didn’t want to stay, the facility wouldn’t let her leave. “They were trying to kidnap her,” he said.

A woman with a cane sits in a wheelchair as another woman pushes her while she holds hands with a man in a blue pullover walking next to her.

Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times

What followed was a tense standoff between the facility and Houston with insinuations of theft coming from both sides. →

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