Huge battle to begin over heiress' $400 million estate

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This is a story of intrique, deception, & mystery. The woman hadn't had a picture taken of her since 1930 She was 104 when she passed. She was a looker back in the day too (see slideshow)

Open Channel - A $400 million twist: Huguette Clark signed two wills, one to her family

Despite years of pleading from attorney after attorney, Clark reached age 98 without directing who should inherit one of America's great fortunes from the Gilded Age, estimated to be at least $400 million. She made no plan for her $100 million oceanfront estate in Santa Barbara, Calif.; her $20 million country house in New Canaan, Conn.; her three apartments on New York's Fifth Avenue, worth up to $100 million; her precious paintings by Renoir and Monet, or her doll collection worth millions.

Awesome slideshow outlining family history below (click on "launch")

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35266272/ns/business-huguette_clark_mystery/

 

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Let the battle begin. Sure the nurse deserves something but I have reservations about how this woman was manipulated nearing the end of her life:
Open Channel - Nurse, in line to inherit millions more, battles family of Huguette Clark

The nurse, Hadassah Peri, an immigrant from the Philippines, already owns a $200,000 Bentley Arnage luxury sedan and five houses. Money for four of those houses was given to her through the years by Clark, whom she joined almost 20 years ago when assigned by a home care agency.

 

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update. New twist in the life of the heiress: Open Channel - The $10 million Degas ballerina, heiress Huguette Clark and the tax man

 

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Open Channel - Even a $31.5 million bid won't snag Huguette Clark apartments for Qatari P.M.

Now the real estate brokers must start over. Perhaps one of the other bidders will want to purchase only the $19 million apartment 8W, facing Central Park, or the $12 million apartment 8E. The apartments are said to need a lot of work, and the kitchens date from before World War II.

a real time capsule.
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