
They charged fraud and that she was mentally incapable of signing a valid will. Then the battle over her estate began, with 19 distant relatives suing to overturn her last will, in which she cut them out entirely. Clark, lived in opulence in New York society as a girl, married once but fled home during her honeymoon, visited her Santa Barbara summer home on occasion until the early 1950s, later became a recluse in a New York hospital room, and died at the age of 104 in 2011 worth $300 million. Nothing definite has been agreed on, he said.Ĭlark, daughter of copper baron W.A. There’s talk that the mysterious life of eccentric copper heiress Huguette Clark might be turned into a movie.īill Dedman, co-author of Empty Mansions, who made three appearances at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum on Sunday and today, told The Santa Barbara Independent that he’s been having conversations about making a feature film of Clark’s life story.
