Reclusive US heiress dies, leaving fortune, mystery

• Huguette Clark died a few days shy of her 105th birthday
• she grew up in Paris, in California and in a Manhattan house of legendary opulence, with 121 rooms.
• last 22 years of her life she lived entirely in New York hospital rooms, under assumed names,  despite having no apparent illness.
• The last known photograph of Clark dates to  August 11, 1930.
• left behind not less than three fabulous homes, all of them staffed and well maintained, but unoccupied
• One home on the Pacific coast in Santa Barbara, is worth $100 million. She last visited in the 1950s.
• Another, worth about the same, is the 42-room apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York
• the third is a country house in Connecticut, currently on the market for $23 million.she has never set foot in
  
• the fortune, estimated  at half a billion dollars
• Last year, Clark family members asked a court to appoint a guardian, saying that Bock and her accountant were manipulating her and blocking them access.

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