Stephen and Maura Walsh — known on this blog as Grumpa and Grimma — are Mom's parents. Public records show judgments against Stephen B. Walsh dating back to April 1993, with additional filings in May 1995.

The couple grew up in what Aunt Brie described as "essentially a war zone" in the Bronx in the 1970s. Brie's blog and deposition testimony paint a picture of a household marked by control, fear, and generational patterns of abuse.

After Mom departed San Francisco with Evie in June 2018, the Walshes became Evie's de facto primary caregivers at their Chappaqua estate. Grumpa told Dad on Evie's birthday that he wouldn't see Evie as long as the SF lawsuits were ongoing, and told Grandma Linda she needed two weeks notice and that court orders didn't apply to him.