Under the constant care of nurses and doctors, Clark felt safe and yet she had constant companionship and was protected from the outside world. She was still in denial about her own mortality. 1x MetroFocus Empty Mansions and the Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark Clip 6m 30s My List NBC News investigative reporter Bill Dedman unravels the mystery of a reclusive, New York heiress with. At the same time, she maintained the family legacy via her father's vast art collection at The Corcoran Gallery (including Degas ballet paintings, Oriental rugs and Egyptian antiquities), located two blocks from the White House.īut after surviving a near-death experience at Beth Israel, Clark decided to live there permanently, even though she was capable of moving home. She spent money wildly like her father but also displayed the artistic talent inherited from her mother. So it wasn't surprising that she withdrew from society, initially living a few floors above her mother in their Fifth Avenue mansion, and, after her mother's death, by herself in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park.Ĭlark certainly indulged in quirky behavior. Dedman’s Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune, published last September and co-written with Paul Clark Newell Jr., a cousin of. She married a childhood friend at 22, but that lasted only two years, and she never attained romantic satisfaction, experiencing unrequited love with her long-time friend and painting instructor, Tade Styka. Clark's father died when she was 18, leaving her with a fortune and warning her not to trust anyone.
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