Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Title: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune Author: Bill Dedman ISBN: 9780345534521 Publisher: Ballantine Books Published: 2013 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher Description: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times - St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned pa