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\n;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Sisters Library:geo:44.2918194,-12 1.5446829 GEO:44.2918194;-121.5446829 DESCRIPTION:Discuss The Phantom of Fifth Avenue by Meryl Gordon..\nhttps:/ /dpl.libnet.info/event/15889407 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The definitive biography of Huguette Clark \, who went from being one of the wealthiest and most famous Jazz Age soci alites to spending the last twenty years of her life hiding out in hospita ls.
\nBorn 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. Her father William Andrews Clark was a copper magnate\, the secon d richest man in America\, and not above bribing his way into the Senate.< /p>\n
Huguette attended the coronation of King George V. And at twenty-t wo with a personal fortune of $50 million to her name\, she married a Prin ceton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later th e couple divorced. After a series of failed romances\, Huguette began to w ithdraw from society&ndash\;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 watchin g The Flintstones with only servants for company.
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