Companion website to the biography of eccentric heiress Huguette Clark. The home tours are fascinating. Her Fifth Avenue apartment, for example, still had a kitchen stove from the 1910s.
Fascinating stuff.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 22, 2019 10:31 PM |
Really interesting
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 22, 2019 10:32 PM |
Her New York phone number began with BUtterfield 8
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 22, 2019 10:34 PM |
What wonderful collections.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 22, 2019 10:39 PM |
Her private-duty nurse, Hadassah Peri, whom she paid an estimated $31 million over the years
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 22, 2019 10:47 PM |
Bellosguardo is so lovely in the vintage photos. Such beautiful paneling and perfect proportions in many rooms.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 22, 2019 10:49 PM |
Beth Israel Hospital, where she lived for the last 20 years of her life. After undergoing successful surgery to remove skin cancer, she preferred to live at the hospital instead of going home because she liked being waited on and cared for. Her favorite TV shows were [italic]The Flintstones[/italic] and [italic]The Smurfs.[/italic]
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 22, 2019 10:52 PM |
The Fifth Avenue mansion where she grew up was considered a bit much even during the Gilded Age.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 22, 2019 10:58 PM |