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The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark

When Huguette Clark died in the spring of 2011, the 104-year-old heiress left behind a 42-room apartment on New York’s Fifth Avenue, a 23-acre estate overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, a 22-room mansion in the woods of Connecticut, a fortune estimated at $300 million and countless unanswered questions including why did she spend the last twenty years of her life in hospitals when she was perfectly healthy, and what had turned a Jazz Age socialite whose first entry in the Social Register was at age 12, into a recluse for the last half-century of her life?

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Meryl Gordon reveals a full portrait of the complex woman behind the mystery and controversy.











When: Tue., Jun. 24, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
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When Huguette Clark died in the spring of 2011, the 104-year-old heiress left behind a 42-room apartment on New York’s Fifth Avenue, a 23-acre estate overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, a 22-room mansion in the woods of Connecticut, a fortune estimated at $300 million and countless unanswered questions including why did she spend the last twenty years of her life in hospitals when she was perfectly healthy, and what had turned a Jazz Age socialite whose first entry in the Social Register was at age 12, into a recluse for the last half-century of her life?

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Meryl Gordon reveals a full portrait of the complex woman behind the mystery and controversy.

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