The intensely reclusive copper heiress Huguette Clark died Tuesday at
the age of 104. Now, the fate of her estimated $500,000,000 fortune she
inherited from her copper mining magnate father, W.A. Clark will have
to be determined. And for someone who has dedicated the last two decades
of her life to keeping people away from her, that's going to be very,
very difficult.
She divorced in 1930 and never remarried. After her
mother Anna died in 1963, she cut herself off from the world, shutting
herself into the family's massive apartments at 907 Fifth Avenue, in New
York. The family owns the entire eighth floor and half of the
twelfth--42 rooms in all. There's also a beach house in Santa Barbara
that she hasn't visited since the 1950s and a country house in New
Canaan, Conn., currently for sale for $23 million.
All of Clark's affairs are handled by her lawyer, Wallace Bock and her
accountant, Irving Kamsler, who themselves are the object of some
suspicion. A series of reports
on MSNBC last year led to an investigation, still underway, into
whether the pair have been inappropriately taking advantage of their
positions of power over Clark's fortunes. Kamsler has been convicted of
distributing indecent material to 13 and 15-year-old girls in an AOL
chatroom. According to MSNBC's Bill Dedman, she has a will, but who
could be slated to get the three houses and mountains of cash? Let's
speculate:
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