Life of rich dead heiress revealed through photos of empty mansions

[dmcowen674]

5-16-2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/15/huguette-clark_n_5322909.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Photos Reveal The Lonely Life Of A Reclusive Heiress And Her Empty Mansions



When Huguette Clark passed away in 2011 at the age of 104, she left behind a fortune worth $300 million. But just-released photos reveal that many of the trappings of the heiress's fortune were abandoned long before her death.


The daughter of U.S. Sen. William A. Clark, the mining and railroad tycoon who founded Las Vegas, Huguette removed herself from public life in the 1930s, secluding herself in the family's Fifth Avenue New York apartment. In doing so, she left mansions in Santa Barbara, Calif., and New Canaan, Conn., largely untouched.

 

[dmcowen674]

I bet many of the rich in here are the same way.

What a waste.

 

[Zaap]

"The Lonely Life Of A Jealous Busibody and His Empty Trailerhome" (no one will bother with pictures.)

There's nothing all that remarkable in any of that. So some old lady DIDN'T spend $300 million on bullshit, and lived to be 104 (anyone should wish to live that long) and yet here you are bitching, as usual.

The woman still has a car from 1933! (Doesn't look like she's bought all that much else since then either.) If she had a $500k 2014 prick-mobile with all the options, and her house was full of every 2014 gadget imaginable, and she spent her years being nothing but the social butterfly throwing buckets of money around, you'd be whining about that too.

The life of a busibody: whining about rich people.

"How dare they spend their money!"

"How dare they NOT spend their money!!"

Basically, how dare they exist!

Quick, how can you circle like the vulture you are and scavenge the carcass clean of everything? Or better yet, how can you get some elected thug to do it for you?

 

[OutHouse]

I like ya dave, but i really dont understand your angle on this. what exactly are you saying was wasted? you really need to get a handle on your jealousy of rich people, there are a lot bigger issues to worry about other than some woman who lives live as a recluse and bothers nobody.

FYI her father Senator Clark, was a rich democrat.

 

[WackyDan]

It looks like the various estates were well preserved. I hate to see abandoned mansions and such overtaken by nature and vandals. Shame really.

 

[Ancalagon44]

It's quite sad actually. She looked pretty when she was younger. Did she never get married?

 

[chimaxi83]

Heh, slow news day Dave? Can't find more "threatening" pre teen black kids to record with your cell phone?

 

[TheVrolok]

That Chateau is awesome. Would be a dream to own property like that.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

Dig that car in the garage!

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Dig that car in the garage!

No doubt, one could make a healthy profit restoring and flipping it. It's most likely worth about $75k to $80k in it's current condition and after spending another $15k to $20k for restoration it would be worth $160k to $180k.

 

[Sea Ray]

It's quite sad actually. She looked pretty when she was younger. Did she never get married?

Yes, she married once in the late 1920s to the son of a business friend of her Dad's. They separated in less than a year

I think it's kind of sad that she didn't get more out of life given all these advantages. I mean, she never had a loving family, friends, grandkids and all. She kind of just spent her 100 years living by herself and painting pictures. We all dream of having weekends like that and maybe even a vacation but is that really how you'd spend your life if you had a bottomless pit of money and good health?

 

[IronWing]

It's still much better to be rich and lonely than to be poor and lonely.

 

[Newell Steamer]

The life of a busibody: whining about rich people.

Uhm,.. like how some on here whine about poor people?

As well as project fantasies of all sorts of awful things poor people do.

Practice what you preach sister, otherwise, nail your ass to the pew and STFU.

 

[Jaskalas]

Uhm,.. like how some on here whine about poor people?

Yes, when it comes to class warfare, people complain about the poor because they have the loudest, neediest voice. It's the poor who riot, who our taxes go towards to fund lives of poverty.

So long as we rely on money to fund the poor, we will never have enough money and we'll always have too many poor. Takes a radical evolution in economics to change this dynamism in any significant way.

 

[Jhhnn]

Yes, when it comes to class warfare, people complain about the poor because they have the loudest, neediest voice. It's the poor who riot, who our taxes go towards to fund lives of poverty.

So long as we rely on money to fund the poor, we will never have enough money and we'll always have too many poor. Takes a radical evolution in economics to change this dynamism in any significant way.

Hardly. It's the Rich who have the loudest voices, amplified through enormous spending on self serving thinktanks, institutes, media outlets & propaganda in general. What you parrot is standard astroturfed right wing bullshit- blame the powerless rather than the powerful. It's the usual pitch to misplaced self righteousness & greed that works on the feebs, every time.

There'd be a lot fewer poor people if not for hoarding at the tippy-top of the heap. The top 1% share of wealth & income has exploded, and that's largely in the top .1%.

Median families & below would have incomes ~40% larger if the income distribution curve of 1978 had been maintained, but you obviously have no intention of allowing facts to interfere with the formulation of your opinions, such as they are.

 

[momeNt]

You know there would need to be no government housing if the poor and needy lived in the mansions of the rich? There is enough square footage of privately owned homes to house 1 billion people in the USA comfortably, but 1% of the population uses up close to half the square footage.

I say the poor take the riches homes, and share them with one another, so we can all live without the government handouts. There is plenty to go around, but too many are taking more than their fair share!

Huzzah!

 

[kia75]

It's still much better to be rich and lonely than to be poor and lonely.

I don't know about that. When you're poor and lonely you have to interact with people around you, and there's a chance that they'll stave off loneliness, even if its just for a bit.

When you're rich you don't have to speak to anyone, you can build a life of loneliness that nobody can crack.

 

[WackyDan]

No doubt, one could make a healthy profit restoring and flipping it. It's most likely worth about $75k to $80k in it's current condition and after spending another $15k to $20k for restoration it would be worth $160k to $180k.

It would probably be classed as a "Survivor" and worth more if it was just preserved and left alone.

 

[OutHouse]

i wonder what the caretakers of the properties got paid.

thats a gig i need. take care of a rich persons estate that they have not been to in 75 years. man that would be awesome.

 

[Jaskalas]

Hardly. It's the Rich who have the loudest voices...

Try spewing that to King Louis... if you can find his head.

The poor are the vast majority of people. They control the planet even if they do not realize or utilize their power all the time. Want to test my truth? Just stop paying welfare for a month. You can't, and you know it.

That's is how you know what I said in my OP is beyond dispute.

 

[Jaskalas]

What you parrot is...

What did I say, that 300+ million people count more than our 1%? Yes, I actually think they do. How horrible I must be. Are you familiar with what I propose?

There'd be a lot fewer poor people if not for hoarding at the tippy-top of the heap. The top 1% share of wealth & income has exploded, and that's largely in the top .1%.

You speak of parrots, then you demonstrate a considerable amount of experience on the matter. Congratulations Jhhnn, but fighting over More, or over Less is entirely beside the point. There can never be enough money for Capitalism to fund Welfare. And I mean truly fund it to the point where people are no longer "poor" or struggling to survive.

Takes a radical evolution in economics to change this dynamism in any significant way. You need to look beyond being a partisan fighting for other's scraps. Class warfare has existed since the dawn of civilization. You're not going to beat it, you have to sidestep it entirely. Stop demanding More from others and look to other solutions.

Look outside the box, or fail.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

This woman seems to have had an incredibly sad life. That's a shame. That said, I do find it remarkably uncharitable to own several mansions that go unoccupied for decades while there are homeless people who could make use of that living space. Even converting them into apartments is a better use than just leaving them unoccupied. I don't understand the mentality of preserving mansions from the gilded age rather than repurposing them to help alleviate the housing problems we have throughout this country. "Should we help these people out who are down on their luck? Nah, fuck that, let's go see how the uber-rich lived 80 years ago and get raging envy boners."

 

[Genx87]

Hardly. It's the Rich who have the loudest voices, amplified through enormous spending on self serving thinktanks, institutes, media outlets & propaganda in general. What you parrot is standard astroturfed right wing bullshit- blame the powerless rather than the powerful. It's the usual pitch to misplaced self righteousness & greed that works on the feebs, every time.

There'd be a lot fewer poor people if not for hoarding at the tippy-top of the heap. The top 1% share of wealth & income has exploded, and that's largely in the top .1%.

Median families & below would have incomes ~40% larger if the income distribution curve of 1978 had been maintained, but you obviously have no intention of allowing facts to interfere with the formulation of your opinions, such as they are.

This is the second time I have heard you make this claim. What makes you believe median incomes would be 40% larger if we somehow kept this ratio?

 

[brycejones]

It would probably be classed as a "Survivor" and worth more if it was just preserved and left alone.

Exactly

 

[Londo_Jowo]

It would probably be classed as a "Survivor" and worth more if it was just preserved and left alone.

Take a look at the car, it will need restoring. It's also been sitting there since 1949.

http://www.emptymansionsbook.com/bellosguardo-automobiles-gallery

Wow, there's also a 1933 Chrysler Royal Eight convertible in the garage as well.