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http://www.businessinsider.com/we-still-dont-know-why-millionaire-heiress-huguette-clark-secluded-herself-from-the-world-2013-9
Clark's untouched Connecticut estate
Editor's note: This review of "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune" appeared in the September issue of The Real Deal. This is an excerpt; you can read the full review here.
To some who knew the late copper heiress Huguette Clark, she was an oddball recluse who wasted her last decades in a hospital room, while her spread at 907 Fifth Avenue — a trio of co-ops spanning 42 rooms — sat as an empty, haunted museum of antique dolls.
Distant family members, meanwhile, saw her as an incapacitated dupe at the mercy of bloodsucking money managers and caregivers.
Those caregivers, however, considered her the quick-witted benefactress who willingly cut them checks for tens of thousands of dollars.
Not surprisingly, her 2011 death at age 104 sparked a court battle over her $308 million estate.
***i would make a fabulous secluded heiress!
eccentric wouldn't begin to describe.
Read more: http://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/who-was-huguette/#ixzz2elzlxDrl
Clark's untouched Connecticut estate
Editor's note: This review of "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune" appeared in the September issue of The Real Deal. This is an excerpt; you can read the full review here.
To some who knew the late copper heiress Huguette Clark, she was an oddball recluse who wasted her last decades in a hospital room, while her spread at 907 Fifth Avenue — a trio of co-ops spanning 42 rooms — sat as an empty, haunted museum of antique dolls.
Distant family members, meanwhile, saw her as an incapacitated dupe at the mercy of bloodsucking money managers and caregivers.
Those caregivers, however, considered her the quick-witted benefactress who willingly cut them checks for tens of thousands of dollars.
Not surprisingly, her 2011 death at age 104 sparked a court battle over her $308 million estate.
***i would make a fabulous secluded heiress!
eccentric wouldn't begin to describe.
Read more: http://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/who-was-huguette/#ixzz2elzlxDrl
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