New Huguette Clark Biography

Bill Dedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and PaulClark Newell Jr. recently released their biography of Huguette Clark entitled, Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life ofHuguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune. 

Dedman stumbed upon the story of this reclusive heiresswhile house-hunting in suburban Connecticut. He noticed the most expensive house for sale was Clark’s Le Chateau,priced at $24 million.  After a bit ofresearch, Dedman discovered that Clark’s Connecticut castle, massive Santa Barbaraestate, and Fifth Avenue spread had all been unoccupied for decades.

Dedman tells the rest of the story in his appearance on The Daily Show.

See JulieZeveloff, How a Reporter Stumbled on theStrange and Sad Story of Reclusive Heiress Huguette Clark, BusinessInsider, Sept. 12, 2013.

Special thanks to Sara Hudman for bringing this book to myattention.