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Empty Mansions - The Mysterious Story of Huguette Clark and the Loss of One of the World's Greatest Fortunes (Paperback, Main)
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Empty Mansions - The Mysterious Story of Huguette Clark and the Loss of One of the World's Greatest Fortunes (Paperback, Main)
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Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the
Gilded Age opulence of nineteenth-century America with a
twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its
heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so
secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new
photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned
palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had
she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being
in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she
in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her
money? Huguette Clark was the daughter of self-made copper
industrialist W. A. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his
day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las
Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a
remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned
paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius
violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than
treasures, she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and
strangers alike, to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist, and
to guarding the privacy she valued above all else. Empty Mansions
reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her
intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father, her publicity-shy
mother, her star-crossed sister, her French boyfriend, her nurse
who received more than $30 million in gifts, and the relatives
fighting to inherit Huguette's copper fortune. Richly illustrated
with more than seventy photographs, Empty Mansions is an
enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last
jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms.
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