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Huguette Marcelle Clark / uː ɡ ɛ t k l ɑː r k / [3] (June 9, 1906 – May 24, 2011) was an American painter, heiress, and philanthropist, who became well known again late in life as a recluse, living in hospitals for more than 20 years while her various mansions remained unoccupied.
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune is a non-fiction book by the American authors Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., about the heiress Huguette Clark (1906–2011), daughter of the copper baron and United States Senator William A. Clark (1839–1925), one of the wealthiest men in the world at the time.
The Clark family bought the property and its Italianate mansion in 1923. Senator William Clark died in 1925. After the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake damaged the home, his widow, Anna Clark, Huguette's mother, had a new 22,000-square-foot mansion built in a French style, designed by Reginald Davis Johnson, completed in 1933.
When Huguette Clark died in spring 2011, she left behind a massive fortune, two conflicting wills, the mysterious aura of recluse, and some of New York City's choicest real estate. Now the fates ...
This is the mansion that heiress Huguette Clark left behind — well, one of them. For half a century, as Clark (1906-2011) paid an estimated $40,000 per month to keep it unchanged, the coveted ...
William MacDonald Levenson Gower (1905–1976), [12] who married Huguette Clark, youngest daughter of Senator William A. Clark, in 1928. [13] They divorced in 1930 and he married Cornelia McGhee (née Baxter) Tevis McKee, a daughter of the Governor of Wyoming Territory George White Baxter, in 1932. Cornelia was the widow of Hugh Tevis and ...
In 1925, upon Clark's death, his widow and his daughter, Huguette Clark, moved to 907 Fifth Avenue, where the annual rental for a full-floor apartment was about $30,000. [3] Shortly thereafter, the mansion was sold to Anthony Campagna for $3 million (equivalent to $53,789,000 in 2024).
Clark with his daughters Andrée (left) and Huguette (right), c. 1917 Clark in November 1920 with his daughter, Huguette, donating 135 acres to the Girl Scouts after the death of his daughter Andrée, which was named Camp Andree Clark. Clark was married twice. His first marriage was to Katherine Louise "Kate" Stauffer in 1869 until her death in ...