Huguette Clark is the daughter of William Andrews Clark a copper baron who was almost as rich as Rockerfeller. The 103-year-old heiress life a secret existence in exclusion from her several estates. She is the owner of a $24 million chateau in Connecticut, a California luxury estate and a 42-room apartment on Fifth Ave.
She inherited her fortune from her father, William Clark, a U.S. senator and Montana tycoon who made a killing from copper mines, railroads and Las Vegas property.Her birth raised eyebrows in high society because her father – the second-richest man in the U.S. at one point – was 39 years older than her mother and no marriage license was recorded.
Reclusive for decades, Huguette Clark has abandoned her wildly valuable properties, which remain empty but well-tended by staff.
Huguette Clark seems to have turned reclusive and eccentric following the death of her mother. Her grand half-nephew, Andre Baeyens, talked to NBC’s Today show and said the following: “Everything stopped for her when her mother died, s he didn’t want to go out. She didn’t want to have beautiful things, no, no. She just wanted to be home and play with her dolls.”
Clark left his daughter Huguette, now 104 because June, a fortune, but no 1 is aware where Huguette Clark lives except her attorney along with a handful of pals. Huguette Clark inherited her fortune from her father William Clark, who became millionaire thanks to railroads, properties and coal mines, he was also a U.S. Senator. Her mother was 39 years younger than Clark, and this was very scandalous back in the day, especially when it was found out there was no marriage license.
