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When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Monthly bill Dedman seen in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for practically 60 years, he stumbled through the surprising portal into American background. Empty Mansions is a abundant mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Get older opulence of the 19th century with a 21st-century fight over a $300 million inheritance. At its center is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, during her death at time 104, no new picture of her had been seen in decades. Though she held palatial homes in California, NY, and Connecticut, why acquired she lived for twenty years in a straightforward hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables for sale off? Was she in charge of her lot of money, or controlled by those controlling her money? Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark's cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to obtain frequent interactions with her. Dedman and Newell inform a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, delivered into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself from the exterior world. Empty Mansions shows a complex portrait of the strange Huguette and her close circle. We meet her luxurious father, her publicity-shy mother, her star-crossed sister, her France partner, her nurse who received more than $30 million in items, and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette's copper lot of money. Empty Mansions is an enthralling story of the eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Get older who lived life on her own terms.
