She was one of the richest women in America, raised in a 121-room mansion overlooking Central Park, worth the modern equivalent of billions. She never remarried, had no children, and spent her…
Huguette Clark was born on June 9, 1906, in Paris, the second daughter of William A. Clark, a man who had built one of the great American fortunes of the Gilded Age. Her father had made his money in mining during the western expansion into Montana in the 1860s, then multiplied it through railway construction … Read more