Huguette Clark

Huguette Marcelle Clark (June 9, 1906 – May 24, 2011) was an American painter, heiress, and philanthropist, who became competently known over late in life as a recluse, living in hospitals for higher than 20 years even though her various mansions remained unoccupied.

The youngest daughter of Montana senator and industrialist William A. Clark, she spent her at the forefront life in Paris past relocating gone her relations to New York City, where she was educated at the Spence School. After a short-lived marriage finished in 1930, Clark returned to her house at 907 Fifth Avenue, a large twelfth-floor apartment that she significantly expanded to occupying two floors. She next meticulously maintained Bellosguardo, a large familial home in Santa Barbara, California, although she never returned to the property after the 1950s.

Clark spent much of her life outside of the public sphere, devoting her get older to painting, the arts, and collecting various antiquities, primarily toys and dolls. In 1952, she purchased substitute property in New Canaan, Connecticut, but taking into account the death of her mommy in 1963, became increasingly reclusive.

In 1991, she was admitted to Doctors Hospital in Manhattan to treat various basal cell cancer lesions upon her face. Though she successfully recovered, Clark remained a hospital resident for the later two decades.

Upon her death at 104 in 2011, Clark left in back a fortune of more than $300 million, most of which was donated to activity after a court dispute subsequent to her distracted relatives. The events surrounding her house and private affairs during the last several years of her spirit were covered extensively by journalist Bill Dedman, who later co-wrote Empty Mansions, a 2013 biography.