![]() ![]() If you haven’t read the book, go put it on your reading list. These unopened and uninhabited estates became the subject of a long investigative journey and eventual best-selling book Empty Mansions, co-written by NBC reporter Bill Dedman and Huguette’s cousin Paul Clark Newell Jr., (one of the few relatives to have conversations with her). A feature film based on the book is also in the works from the creator of “Glee” and “American Horror Story”, Ryan Murphy. No one had seen a photograph of Huguette for decades when she died at the age of 104– not even the caretakers who had been meticulously maintaining her three residences over the years knew what their employer looked like anymore. ![]() Her father became as rich as Rockefeller from mining copper and founded the city of Las Vegas, but Huguette wasn’t your average American heiress. ![]() She had three sprawling luxury homes at her disposal, but Huguette Clark chose to spend the last 20 years of her life holed up in a New York hospital room. ![]()
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