Empty Mansions
The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
by Bill Dedman · first published 2013
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The rich mystery of a reclusive, eccentric heiress Huguette Clark: a true story of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance.
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The book Empty Mansions [1] is about the heiress of Montana copper mining interests, Hugette Clark (father is namesake of Nevadah's county). IIRC, she inherited multiple properties and $300m+USD. A quite fascinating view into…
on “Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a trend” ↗…your husband, daughter, and I have already prepaid-for — just like we did when renovating your older studio, just a few summers ago... RIP you Old Bitch =D ---- The heiress affliction, e.g. also read Empty Mansions (book about heiress Hattie Clark) [0][1] [0] https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Mansions-Mysterious-Huguette-Sp... *[on my Top 10 random WTF non-fiction Human Experience books, to recommend, Reading List]…
on “What Happens to Artists' Studios After They Die?” ↗…like a thriller is my favorite genre. The last book that truly surprised me for how good it was and had been sitting unread in my queue for a while because the descriptions didn't give it justice was Empty Mansions: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Mansions It's basically like rise and fall of…
on “Where is the scrutiny over FDA’s role in the overdose epidemic?” ↗The book Empty Mansions has an extreme account of this.
on “Ask HN: How do the ultra rich maintain homes when they are not occupying them?” ↗