Bill dedman Empty Mansions

The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 20, 2013

Journalist Bill Dedman tells the story of a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune describes the battle over her $300 million inheritance.

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