Heiress Huguette Clark signed two wills
A $400 million twist: Huguette Clark signed two wills, one to her family
By Bill Dedman
Investigative Reporter, msnbc.com
NEW YORK — There is a new surprise in the mysterious story of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark. It turns out that she signed two wills, the first one benefitting her family, the second one cutting out her family altogether. And she signed them one after another, within six weeks.
Reclusive heiress Huguette Clark
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.
Then, within six weeks, she signed two wills, right about the time that her family says her attorney stopped putting through their phone calls.
It appears both wills are genuine. That is to say, both were presented by her executors, who are her attorney and accountant. The second will was already filed in court by the executors in June, a month after her death in May at age 104. The first will was turned over by the executors voluntarily to her family, which filed it in court Monday morning along with a motion to enter the case.
Whoops. This is embarrassing. The photo above is actually Tony Curtis. I apologize for the journalistic gaff - although, as you might imagine, it's not a difficult mistake to make! Here's the heiress's actual pic.
BTW, I hope it doesn't mean that I'm getting 'strange' in my old age, but I think Curtis was the better looking gal!
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