Huguette Clark

Such a sad saga - which continues. All previous history is linked at the end of this latest chapter:

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_n...ark-claims-fraud-by-nurse-attorney-accountant

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_n...lerina-heiress-huguette-clark-and-the-tax-man


NEW YORK — The mystery itself is a masterpiece. A $10 million painting by Degas — a simple figure of a ballerina in a yellow and red tutu pointing her toe – vanished from the New York City apartments of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, and wound up, innocently enough, on the living room wall of Henry Bloch, a Kansas art collector better known as the "H" in the tax company H&R Block. How it got there is a multi-layered tale involving one of the more colorful transactions in the history of high-end art.

For readers who have been following the Clark mystery story on msnbc.com, this episode provides a new piece of evidence that could be important in the legal battle over her $400 million estate. Now we know that her longtime physician, as part of a settlement over the painting, signed a statement swearing to her competency, describing his then-102-year-old patient as "mentally and physically alert." This was in 2008, or three years after she signed a will cutting her family out of any inheritance and planning an art museum in her California home.

Apparently she had a huge doll collection. I would love to see it. Fascinating and sad story...

I did a piece on one of my blogs on Huguette Clark a couple years ago.
She was a facinating person.

Huguette died last year according to foxnews http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/1...fts-left-by-reclusive-copper/?test=latestnews

RIP Huguette Clark.