6/22/2023 0 Comments Empty mansions book![]() Huguette never remarried, but continued to live with her mother in their elegant apartment, collecting dollhouses and artwork. She charged her husband with desertion and he claimed the marriage had never been consummated. Huguette married the son of one of her father’s business associates when she was 22 years old. Huguette’s father passed away shortly after her debut and she and her mother moved to a “smaller” 42-room apartment at another elegant 5th Avenue address. Her family was considered to be among the elite of Manhattan and Huguette was formally introduced to society in 1926. The home also contained four art galleries displaying works by Rembrandt, Degas, Donatello and Reuben. Huguette grew up on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue, in a 121-room mansion featuring 31 bathrooms, a theatre, a swimming pool and a massive pipe organ. Huguette was considered to be the last living person to represent the New York Gilded Age of the Vanderbilts and Astors. He remarried a younger woman and was 67 years old when Huguette was born. William Andrews Clark was considered a scoundrel, even purchasing his own Senate seat in 1899. When he died he was worth an estimated $150 million, which would be considered about $3 billion in today’s dollars. He traveled to Montana, struck copper and made a fortune in that industry. ![]() Her father was born in 1839 to a poor family in Pennsylvania. ![]() Her death made news because she was the last surviving child of William Andrews Clark. Huguette Clark, pronounced hyoo-GETT, died just short of her 105th birthday. ![]()
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