NEW YORK (AP) – A judge wants the smelly couch and tattered nightgowns that became symbols of the guardianship battle over 104-year-old philanthropist Brooke Astor thrown in the garbage, according to court papers made public on Thursday.

Astor’s grandson, who’s gone to state Supreme Court in Manhattan seeking to have his father removed as her guardian, has claimed that under his father’s care she was reduced to living in squalor in her Park Avenue duplex.

“Her bedroom is so cold in the winter that my grandmother is forced to sleep in the TV room in torn nightgowns on a filthy couch that smells, probably from dog urine,” Philip Marshall said in a July 18 sworn statement included in the newly unsealed papers.

Justice John Stackhouse responded by ordering officials at J.P. Morgan Chase bank, her temporary guardians, to replace furniture in the apartment, “including the old couch” in the TV room, the court papers said. Astor, he added, should be bought “new nightgowns, new outfits, new underwear and new accessories.”

The dispute over Astor’s couch, clothing and health care was first publicized last month in a front-page story in the Daily News, before the judge granted the family’s request to temporarily seal the court file.

Marshall’s father, Anthony Marshall, a Tony-winning Broadway producer who is Astor’s son from a previous marriage, has vehemently denied mistreating his mother.

Lawyers for The Associated Press, the Daily News, The New York Times and the New York Post challenged the sealing order, arguing the public had a legitimate interest in the well-being of a popular public figure like Astor.

Astor’s charitable efforts through the Vincent Astor Foundation, named for her husband, won her a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 1998. She has been a leading society figure for decades.

Her husband, a descendant of 19th-century tycoon John Jacob Astor, endowed the foundation before he died in 1959.

The foundation gave away approximately $200 million by the time it closed at the end of 1997.

Earlier this week, the judge agreed to release the court papers. Details of Astor’s failing health were blacked out to protect her privacy, but evidence of the bitter family feud were left intact.

“The sad and deplorable state of my family’s affairs compelled me to bring this guardianship action,” Philip Marshall said in his statement.

He claims his father “has enriched himself at the expense of my grandmother,” pocketing nearly $2.4 million in 2005 to manage her affairs while penny-pinching on her basic needs.

Astor, “who was accustomed to dining with world leaders and frequented 21 and the Knickerbocker Club,” has been “forced to eat oatmeal and pureed carrots, pureed peas and pureed liver every day,” the grandson said.

He also alleges that Astor had not seen her prized pet dogs, Boysie and Girlsie, for six months because they were kept locked in a pantry.

In his order, the judge asked the bank to pay for a dog-walker.