A secluded life...
When Huguette Clark passed away in 2011 at the age of 104, she left behind a fortune worth $300 million. But just-released photos reveal that many of the trappings of the heiress's fortune were abandoned long before her death, Harry Brandford reported today on huffingtonpost.com.
Huguette was the daughter of U.S. Sen. William A. Clark, the mining and railroad tycoon who founded Las Vegas.
She removed herself from public life in the 1930s, secluding herself in the family's Fifth Avenue New York apartment. In doing so, she left mansions in Santa Barbara, Calif., and New Canaan, Conn., largely untouched, Brandford wrote.
Photos of Clark's many preserved yet uninhabited estates, published in a new biography, "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune," provide a view into Clark's eerie hollowness, Brandford reported.
For a peek into the life and mansions of Huguette Clark: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/15/huguette-clark_n_5322909.html
Huguette Clark and her father, U.S. Sen. William Clark. 1912, cir.ca
The Reclusive Heiress and Her Empty Mansions
Huguette was the daughter of U.S. Sen. William A. Clark, the mining and railroad tycoon who founded Las Vegas.
She removed herself from public life in the 1930s, secluding herself in the family's Fifth Avenue New York apartment. In doing so, she left mansions in Santa Barbara, Calif., and New Canaan, Conn., largely untouched, Brandford wrote.
Photos of Clark's many preserved yet uninhabited estates, published in a new biography, "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune," provide a view into Clark's eerie hollowness, Brandford reported.
For a peek into the life and mansions of Huguette Clark: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/15/huguette-clark_n_5322909.html
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