5/17/2023 0 Comments Books on huguette clark![]() ![]() While she eventually purchased the entire 8th floor of that building, along with mansions in Santa Barbara and Connecticut, Clark moved permanently into a hospital about twenty years ago where she took a pseudonym and lived under the care of a private nurse. ![]() Clark retreated into a grand old apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park. (That divorce, incidentally, also produced the last known photograph of her, seen above). Clark was a socialite in the 1920s, before disappearing from the public eye after a failed marriage that ended in divorce in 1930. Some catch-up: Huguette Clark was a reclusive New York heiress who inherited a vast fortune from her father, William Andrews Clark, one of the richest (and most disliked) of the Gilded Age industrialists. What's happening to her extensive doll collection, supposedly worth millions? What about her rare books? I've been thinking lately about Huguette Clark. ![]()
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