Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family\'s 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day.
But what happened to Huguette that turned a vivacious, young socialite into a recluse? And what was her Life like inside that gilded, copper cage?.
All her money and all her real estate could not protect her in her later Life from being manipulated by shady hangers-on and hospitals that were only too happy to admit (and bill) a healthy woman.
After a series of failed romances, Huguette began to withdraw from society--first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company.
Two-years later the couple divorced.
And at twenty-two with a personal fortune of $50 million to her name, she married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower.
Huguette attended the coronation of King George V.
Her father William Andrews Clark, was a copper magnate, the second richest man in America, and not above bribing his way into the Senate.
Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family\'s 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day
