Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

By Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr.

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Huguette Clark, daughter of the copper magnate and senator W. A. Clark, grew up in a 121-room New York City house. Though she owned palatial homes in three states, she spent twenty years in a plain hospital room despite good health. The journalist Bill Dedman writes with her cousin Paul Clark Newell Jr., who spoke with her often. They trace the family fortune and examine her art, her generosity, her private nurse and the fight over a $300 million estate.

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