The phantom of Fifth Avenue : the mysterious life and scandalous death of heiress Huguette Clark / Meryl Gordon.
Publisher: New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 382 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 145551263X (hbk.)
- 9781455512645 (hardcover)
- 1455512648 (hardcover)
- 9781455512638 (hbk.)
- Mysterious life and scandalous death of heiress Huguette Clark
- Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011 -- Homes and haunts -- United States
- Clark, William Andrews, 1839-1925 -- Family
- Clark, Huguette, 1906-2011
- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography
- Recluses -- United States -- Biography
- Heiresses -- United States -- Biography
- Mansions -- United States -- History
- 973.9092 B 23
- CT275.C6273 G67 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-366)and index.
The Clark family reunion at the Corcoran -- The quest for "tante Huguette" -- Huguette's walk in Central Park -- The copper king -- The reinvention of Anna -- A Parisian childhood -- Fractured fairytale -- Beginnings and endings -- The society girl -- Alone again -- Facts, fiction and betrayal -- The lady vanishes -- A change of address -- The constant companion -- The great give-away -- The long goodbye -- The fight for Huguette's fortune.
Describes the sad life of Huguette Clark, heiress to a copper magnate's fortune, who withdrew from society to live in isolation in a huge 5th Avenue apartment before spending the last years of her life in a New York hospital.