The Huguette Clark Estate

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The Huguette Clark Estate

Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:03 pm

NEW YORK — With one month until trial, settlement negotiations are being held to divide up the $300 million estate of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark. Although her last will and testament stated emphatically that none of her copper fortune should go to her distant relatives, most of whom she never met, the family would receive millions if a deal is struck.
A settlement is not at all certain, and the negotiations have been contentious and complicated, said several of the 60 attorneys involved in the case.
A jury trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 17 in Surrogate's Court in Manhattan, pitting Clark’s relatives against the beneficiaries of her will: a charitable foundation, a hospital, Clark's multimillionaire private-duty registered nurse, a goddaughter, attorney, accountant, doctor and several employees.
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This is a shame. All that money wasted on lawyers and paper shuffling.

What always amazes me is how quickly we an get ourselves back in time. What I mean is, Huguette Clark just died in 2011, 2 years ago. She was born in 1906, and was the youngest child of the amazingly virile William A. Clark, a copper magnate and former US Senator. William A. Clark, however, was born in 1839. Which means that we are only 2 lifetimes away from a guy who witnessed events before the US Civil War -- in the 1840s. A man who would have had a living recollection of Abraham Lincoln. A man who might have heard John Quincy Adams speak.

It's just weird to contemplate. :smoke:

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Post by cronus » Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:13 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:
NEW YORK — With one month until trial, settlement negotiations are being held to divide up the $300 million estate of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark. Although her last will and testament stated emphatically that none of her copper fortune should go to her distant relatives, most of whom she never met, the family would receive millions if a deal is struck.
A settlement is not at all certain, and the negotiations have been contentious and complicated, said several of the 60 attorneys involved in the case.
A jury trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 17 in Surrogate's Court in Manhattan, pitting Clark’s relatives against the beneficiaries of her will: a charitable foundation, a hospital, Clark's multimillionaire private-duty registered nurse, a goddaughter, attorney, accountant, doctor and several employees.
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news ... state?lite

This is a shame. All that money wasted on lawyers and paper shuffling.

What always amazes me is how quickly we an get ourselves back in time. What I mean is, Huguette Clark just died in 2011, 2 years ago. She was born in 1906, and was the youngest child of the amazingly virile William A. Clark, a copper magnate and former US Senator. William A. Clark, however, was born in 1839. Which means that we are only 2 lifetimes away from a guy who witnessed events before the US Civil War -- in the 1840s. A man who would have had a living recollection of Abraham Lincoln. A man who might have heard John Quincy Adams speak.

It's just weird to contemplate. :smoke:
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:52 pm

Well, it never ceases to amaze how even the most innocuous thread will be hijacked by the "we're better than Merka" thing...

Moreover, to suggest we don't have "roots" here on this side of the pond is to Eurocentrically forget that human civilization existed in the Americas for as long as there was civilization in Europe. It's just that European roots only go back 400-odd years at the best. Other roots are just as deep as those in Europe. (well, perhaps not "just as long" but close enough - thousands of years).

The point I was making had nothing even to do with "roots" as it were. It was a reference to being basically two lifetimes away from the first half of the 19th century, and how difficult that is to grasp. It's interesting to think about, and wonder about, at least to me. It's amazing to contemplate that one might talk to someone whose parent shook hands with, say, Queen Victoria, or Abraham Lincoln, or some such other personage. These folks seem so distant from us that it's hard to comprehend.

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:54 pm

I'm still trying to come to terms with "Huguette"... :?
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Post by cronus » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:13 pm

America is still very immature as nations go though. Doesn't take a German rocket scientist. :read:
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:13 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:I'm still trying to come to terms with "Huguette"... :?
Lovely name. LOL.

and, oddly, it's pronounced "oo-get".

What pisses me off about stories like this is the lack of detail. Where are the reporters with the poignant questions? I mean, WHY did she disinherit her family? How did she end up with all the dough? Or did she? Did the other family members get chunks of the Clark estate when William Clark died? Does she hate the relatives? Why? And, what has she been doing for the last 80 years? There must be SOMETHING they can tell us to shed light on the situation...

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Post by laklak » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:17 pm

On what basis are the "distant relatives" contesting the will? It's her decision what to do with her money unless coerced or of unsound mind. Fuck. leave it to the budgie if you want to.
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Post by Thinking Aloud » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:18 pm

laklak wrote:On what basis are the "distant relatives" contesting the will? It's her decision what to do with her money unless coerced or of unsound mind. Fuck. leave it to the budgie if you want to.
On the basis that they want some of it.

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:24 pm

She moved into Beth Israel Hospital and lived there for 20 years -- http://www.businessinsider.com/heiress- ... tal-2013-9

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:25 pm

laklak wrote:On what basis are the "distant relatives" contesting the will? It's her decision what to do with her money unless coerced or of unsound mind. Fuck. leave it to the budgie if you want to.
Fraud and that she was incompetent.

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Post by laklak » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:26 pm

Lol, I read that as "fraud and that she was incontinent".
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:28 pm

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Huguette is the one on the right. That's her in 1917. Fucking 1917. LOL. Fucking middle of World War 1.

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:31 pm

Wikipedia says the last known photo of her was taken in 1930. She was married to a law student in 1928, but the divorced in Reno in 1929. LOL. What the fuck??? They really need to get some details!

She developed a distrust of strangers and even family members, because she thought they were after her money. She preferred to have all her conversations in French, so that others would be less likely to understand what she was saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguette_Clark

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:46 pm

I was just reading that... I'd be interested in reading the book on her that's coming out this month...
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