Huguette Clark (the girl on the right in the photo above) was the daughter of Montana Senator William Andrews Clark, a man Mark Twain called 'as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag.' The Senator left behind a copper fortune, as well as the Berkeley Pit in Butte, one of the largest Superfund sites in the United States.
Huguette left behind hundreds of porcelain dolls, which she collected obsessively. A recluse as an adult, Huguette barely set foot outside her Fifth Avenue apartment for almost two decades. Then, when she was diagnosed with and treated for skin cancer, she remained in her hospital room for the next 20 years, using it as a base of operations for her doll-collecting enterprises.
(thanks Ben)
0 comment(s):
Post a Comment