Huguette Clark
From the January issue: For the past two decades, some 17,000 square feet of prime Fifth Avenue real estate have sat fully furnished, but empty. Once owned by eccentric heiress Huguette Clark, the three sprawling apartments at exclusive co-op 907 Fifth Avenue are now visited only by cleaning staff.
Clark spent the last 20 years of her life in hospitals despite reported good health, scarcely ever setting foot inside 907 Fifth Avenue or her seaside mansion in Santa Barbara, Calif. She also reportedly never spent a single night in the 12,766-square-foot Connecticut country house she bought in 1951. (That 52-acre estate in New Canaan is currently on the market for $24 million.) [more]
January 14, 2012 at 8:17 pm, Injai said:
I love money, don’t get me wrong, but in some cases, it can ruin a life. I wonder how often Ms. Clark ever felt truly cared for. She spent her last days (20 yrs or so) in a hospital. When I read her story, I wondered if she went to the hospital b/c at least there, there would be oversight of her care~no sneeky business, everything out in the open. All things considered it isn’t the worst way to go. But how did the money serve her?
January 16, 2012 at 1:25 pm, Charlotte said:
I was thinking the same thing. IMHO she was a poor lady