Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune cover
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
by Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell, Jr.
ISBN: 0345534522
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Much like Miss Havisham, she's even maintained her princess room, for over seven decades, in the teenaged-years house she inherited from Daddy.

The most honest, evil woman I have ever met — and we've had some conversations (and I dozens of women). If I wrote some of her Spoken Truths onto this forum... I would probably get censored [this is an extremely HNW individual, from The Silent Generation]. Hate™ is real.

If there's anything I can convey from our decade-long relationship, it's that nobody can do everything ("wear all the hats") forever. Nobody has time to know how to do everything. You are your own worst enemy.

I have known her since she was still cleaning out the gutters, herself — but obviously age has reduced her to bedside (and she still won't air condition half her properties!).

Parkinsons is doing the rest. "Why would I care about what's going on with my property? I haven't been up their in forty years!?!"

Your heirs hate what you've become, trust me I know. When you die I will be throwing most of your worldly possessions into the dumpster — which your husband, daughter, and I have already prepaid-for — just like we did when renovating your older studio, just a few summers ago... RIP you Old Bitch =D

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The heiress affliction, e.g. also read Empty Mansions (book about heiress Hattie Clark) [0][1]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Mansions-Mysterious-Huguette-Sp...

*[on my Top 10 random WTF non-fiction Human Experience books, to recommend, Reading List]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguette_Clark