Empty Mansions

The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

About this book

The rich mystery of a reclusive, eccentric heiress Huguette Clark: a true story of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance.

Subjects

  • biography
  • biography & autobiography / rich & famous
  • business & economics / entrepreneurship
  • collectors and collecting
  • eccentrics
  • eccentrics and eccentricities
  • family
  • heiresses
  • history
  • history / united states / general
  • homes and haunts
  • inheritance and succession
  • mansions
  • new york times bestseller
  • nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2013-09-29
  • recluses
  • rich people, biography