Empty mansions : mysterious life of Hugette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
Dedman, Bill2014
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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?
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Imprint:
Atlantic Books, 2014.
ISBN:
9780345534538
Dewey class:
361.74092 DED
Local class:
361.74092 DED
Language:
English
BRN:
2428773