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Gordon, Meryl.
Subjects
Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011.
Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011 -- Homes and haunts -- United States.
Clark, William Andrews, 1839-1925 -- Family.
Heiresses -- United States -- Biography.
Recluses -- United States -- Biography.
Social isolation -- Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Biography.
Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography.
Rich people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
Mansions -- United States -- History.
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Gordon, Meryl.
Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011.
Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011 -- Homes and haunts -- United States.
Clark, William Andrews, 1839-1925 -- Family.
Heiresses -- United States -- Biography.
Recluses -- United States -- Biography.
Social isolation -- Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Biography.
Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography.
Rich people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
Mansions -- United States -- History.
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The
phantom
of
Fifth
Avenue
: the
mysterious
life
and
scandalous
death
of
heiress
Huguette
Clark
/ Meryl Gordon.
by
Gordon, Meryl.
Grand Central Publishing, 2014.
Call #:
302.545 C593g
Subjects
Clark
,
Huguette
, 1906-2011.
Clark
,
Huguette
, 1906-2011 -- Homes and haunts -- United States.
Clark
, William Andrews, 1839-1925 -- Family.
Heiresses -- United States -- Biography.
Recluses -- United States -- Biography.
Social isolation -- Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Biography.
Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography.
Rich people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
Mansions -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9781455512638 (hc.)
145551263X (hc.)
Alternate title:
Phantom
of 5th
Avenue
: the
mysterious
life
and
scandalous
death
of
heiress
Huguette
Clark
Edition:
First Edition.
Description:
382 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-366) and index.
Contents:
The
Clark
family reunion at the Corcoran -- The quest for "tante
Huguette
" --
Huguette
's walk in Central Park -- The copper king -- The reinvention of Anna -- A Parisian girlhood -- The fractured fairytale -- Beginnings and endings -- Society girl -- Alone again -- Facts, fiction, and betrayal -- The lady vanishes -- A change of address -- The constant companion -- The great giveaway -- The long good-bye -- The battle for
Huguette
's fortune.
Summary:
"Born in 1906,
Huguette
Clark
grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews
Clark
, was a copper magnate, the second richest man in America. At twenty-two Huguett had a personal fortune of $50 million. She married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later the couple divorced. After a series of failed romances,
Huguette
began to withdraw from society--first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company. All her money and all her real estate could not protect her in her later
life
from being manipulated by shady hangers-on and hospitals that were only too happy to admit (and bill) a healthy woman. But what happened to
Huguette
that turned a vivacious, young socialite into a recluse? And what was her
life
like inside that gilded, copper cage?"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Biographies.
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