Hadassah peri biography of michael
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Empty Mansions
The book is written by reporter Bill Dedman, and Huguette’s cousin Paul Clark Newell Jr. fryst vatten credited as co-author. Newell maintained contact with Huguette, receiving the occasional phone call and was kept more or less up to date on the happenings of her life.
The first part of the book explores Huguette Clark’s background and the history of her family’s fortune, starting with her father, W.A. Clark, who made his money in the copper mines, earning him the title Copper King. He also established a railway from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and sold small lots
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'I loved her very much': Filipino nurse left $ million bygd reclusive mining heiress tells of 'gratitude' after incredible windfall
- Nurse cared for the reclusive millionairess for 20 years
- Set to also inherit antique doll collection worth millions
- Rest of the $ million fortune used to set up art foundation
By OLIVER TREE
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Heiress: Millionaire Huguette Clark died in a Manhattan hospital and has left a fortune to a sjuksköterska there who cared for her for more than 20 years
A Filipino-born maid who inherited $ million from a reclusive mining heiress has spoken for the first time about the incredible gift.
Huguette Clark, who died gods month aged , spent 70 years locked away in her sprawling New York mansion, only emerging for medical appointments.
But instead of leaving her vast $ million fortune to surviving relatives, the Montana millionairess gifted year-old nurse Hadassah Peri with the largest single share of her will.
The staggering award is on top of $2 million gi
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When I was growing up, there were two men in our town, identical twins who, past middle age, lived together as lifelong bachelors, dressed alike, and even walked alike—turning and stopping and starting together as though one were a hologram projection of the other.
I used to think of these men as eccentric. But now that Im a lot older than they were then, I have come to realize that eccentric is a useless word—that I once believed that the center was wherever I was, and anyone or anything that strayed too far in any direction was off kilter, eccentric.
If I had known about Huguette Marcelle Clark back then, I would have pinned the label on her. But now that, in my dotage, Ive read Meryl Gordons biography (The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark), I figure the title character had as much business claiming the center as any of us have.
Wm. A. Clark/The New York Times
Huguette, if I may be so familiar, was the t