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Huguette Clark Obituary
Clark spent the last two decades of her life in New York City hospitals. She died Tuesday, "with dignity and privacy," her lawyer, Wallace Bock, said in a statement.
The statement was released by Robert Anello, an attorney who represents Bock in an investigation into Clark's finances.
The Manhattan district attorney is looking into claims made by Clark's family that she was kept isolated from almost everyone except Bock and her accountant and that she may not have understood decisions being made related to her fortune.
Clark was born in 1906 to a then 67-year-old U.S. senator, William A. Clark of Montana, and a 28-year-old Michigan woman named Anna Eugenia La Chapelle. Clark had made a fortune in mining and was one of the richest men in America. He built railroads across the United States, founding Las Vegas in the process.
Huguette Clark's fortune is believed to be worth some $500 million. As of last year, she still owned a 42-room, multi-floor apartment at 907 Fifth Ave.; a Connecticut castle surrounded by 52 acres of land; and a Santa Barbara, Calif., mansion built on a 23-acre bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Beginning in the 1960s, Clark rarely left her Fifth Avenue home, having whatever she needed delivered. She moved into a hospital in the 1980s.
Bock and accountant Irving Kamsler had been in charge of her financial affairs for years, and they're among the few people who have contact with her. Distant relatives say they have not seen her in years.
Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press
96 Entries
Laura
February 13, 2014
I hope you are at peace.
November 27, 2013
A remarkable and unique woman whose love of, and contributions toward, music and the arts endures and inspires our future.
Bill Evans ( SB, CA)
Linda Kearns
January 8, 2013
Would have enjoyed meeting you
and sharing conversation and
time. R.I.P.
Linda
January 8, 2013
Would have enjoyed knowing you, sharing
dinner and conversation. R.I.P.
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October 11, 2012
you always had a kind and wonderful soul. you helped us a lot. may you rest in peace. all our love to you rose marie and leslie balogh
Patricia
July 26, 2012
You are now at peace.. May you rest in God's arms forever. I hope to meet you in heaven someday.
Roberta Davidson
April 15, 2012
I wish we had known more about you Rest in Peace, Huguette.
Jennifer
March 13, 2012
The stories written in your honor have intrigued me for years. I wish I would have met you just once, to hear your story. I'm sure it would have been a wonderful one. I look forward to meeting you in heaven someday. God Bless you and rest in peace, Huguette.
jj
December 14, 2011
Far from controversey now. May Huguette fly with the Angels.
Kathy McLean
November 21, 2011
God Bless You Ms. Clark and you are at home with God! God Bless your family and surround you with healing and faith!
Kathy McLean
November 21, 2011
My father's mother was a Susan Clark, Her father William Clark from Fort Scott, Kansas and Gardner Kansas. Parents travel from Indiana area in a covered wagon and settled in Kansas. I wonder if they were related. I have a bible in which written in it the trip across the states.
God Bless you, Huguette Clark and Family
Sarah Suagee
June 24, 2011
I have read as much information about this mysterious woman over the years, and wish I could just meet her one time. God bless you ms. Clark! Rest Peacefully for another 104 years and an eternity more! You were a great person, and I'm glad you did what you wanted to in life!
lee burges
June 23, 2011
RIP - Hopefully a life fulfilled!
Robert Le Page
June 23, 2011
Miss Clark may you rest in peace'I will
think of you always' and I will follow you in WEALTH.
Beth
June 20, 2011
Aloha Huguette Marcelle Clark! you are an angel in my heart, now, and I feel the presence of you and your dolls giving me strength and love.
Jayne Risor
June 9, 2011
I put yellow roses in the gate of your home in Santa Barbara on the day you left us. My late husband was a playmate of a caretaker on the property many years ago and shared many wonderful memories with me. Thank you for the many gifts you have bestowed on Santa Barbara. May you rest in peace.
Candy Clark
June 7, 2011
Miss Clark you have intrigued me for many years.... and always will...
God Bless and may you rest in peace.....
Candy C, Saratoga Springs NY
LeRoy Weisberg
June 4, 2011
May you find peace in Heaven since you
were unable to find peace while on earth.May your soul be bound up in the wings of angels. And may you find eternal rest in the house of your Father.
Bless you
LeRoy Weisberg , Miami Florida.
Bev
May 30, 2011
So sorry for the loss of Miss Clark...I would have loved to know her...Sorry she left this world as she did,but she is in heaven with our Lord...May she rest in peace forever...bev...Louisiana
Anamaria Bertot
May 28, 2011
May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.
Luz Rosario
May 28, 2011
As innocent as she was, an angel has gone back home. We will ALL be there and meet again.
May 28, 2011
R I P! Shreveport, LA.
e.j. mccarthy
May 28, 2011
brava... solitude accomplished. God bless you
May 27, 2011
Ms. Clark, I hope you lived your life as you wished & found happiness in life. May the lord welcome you into eternal happiness with loved ones who await you. May you rest in peace.
Joan Searls
May 27, 2011
Bless your heart. Rest in peace fair lady. Your spirt will live on in the great works your family will do in your honor.
Tommie Taylor
May 27, 2011
I know that Ms. Clark has found happiness in heaven. God bless her soul.
Audrey & Sharon Kowalczyk
May 27, 2011
May She Rest in Peace!
May 27, 2011
Floyd Seaborn & Family Jewlett, Arkansas
Joella Varner
May 27, 2011
To the Family of Ms, Hugguette Clark,
my deepest condolences are with you at this time of sorrow, remember Ms Clark as the wonderful person she look like she could have been. And what little memory you think you have cherish those in your heart. It is so sad that you all were isolated from her, don't spend this time wasted on what could have been, and use this energy to strenghten one another. May the God of all comfort be with you.
"Pleasant sayings are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and a healing to the bones"
"He that is slow to anger is better than a mighty man, and he that is contolling his spirit than the one capturing a city".
(Proverbs 16:24)
Proverbs 16:32)
May 27, 2011
Rest In Peace~I truly believe that "one-self" can be their own best friend. After 104 years you knew what life was all about. I bet you knew exactly who cared for you regardless of your wealth, age and state of mind. You are now with your loved ones who passed before you....fly with all the other angels.
william austin
May 27, 2011
My thoughts and prayers are with All the Family.
Peace and calmness to everyone.
T. C. Brown
May 27, 2011
We have been read pieces of your fastinating life on the internet, and only wish we could know your personal story as only as you could have told it. God Bless you for the long life you lived. Now, may be you Rest in Peace.
maria rodriguez
May 26, 2011
god bless to a swett lady god give the life longer and all my pray for you, sorry you was alonei would like to know about your misterious personality and i hope you will be in heaven
Greg E
May 26, 2011
may God bless you and keep you all the days of your afterlife
Janet Stallard
May 26, 2011
Rest in Peace Sister! Bless your heart!
lori Hayes
May 26, 2011
I am from Minnesota and I have tried to read everything that I could on Ms Hugguette Clark for many years.I wish that I could have knowen her and gave her a real friendship and showen her that there are people out here that just want to see her smile she seemed a very sad woman over the death of her mother God bless her and may she now R.I.P.
joan clark
May 26, 2011
please know you're in my prayers dear lady.
G Melendez
May 26, 2011
I would have loved the chance to sit and talk with you,to learn more about you. May you rest in peace.
Buddy Polley
May 26, 2011
Just look at this world today!!!! Cant Even Trust A Single Person With Someone Finances(Just A Shame). Lets Get To The Real Reason, Mrs.Clark May You Rest In Peace! And I Only Wish I Knew You Better, Would Of Loved To Sit And Talk With You. Again May You Rest In Peace
May 26, 2011
May God, and the Blessed Virgin Mary , his mother, and the angels and saints take care of you. now that you are at peace and take you to heaven with them. I will pray for your soul". you had a long and healthy life. Shirley Golden Coal Township, Pa. 17866
DONNA JOHNSON
May 26, 2011
I DON'T KNOW WHAT KEPT YOU ISOLATED FROM YOUR RELATIVES OR OTHERS ON THE OUTSIDE WORLD, BUT I HOPE YOU REST IN PEACE, MS. CLARK.
DONNA
Vicki
May 26, 2011
Dearest lady, anything I've read about you in this last year revealed that you were a sweet and gentle person. I would have loved to have had a conversation with you...in French! Since I was a small girl in the 1950s, I always wondered who lived behind the gates of the big, oceanfront mansion across from the peaceful, lovely bird refuge in Santa Barbara, never knowing it was you...although you actually weren't there at all. I understand what it means to yearn for and maintain a private existence although, yes, it can be so lonely. I hope they buried you with your favorite doll in her nicest dress and hat, and I hope you rest easy now, reunited with your beloved mother and sister. A wistful farewell...
r brown
May 26, 2011
sad story i hope u live free in heaven
e sites
May 26, 2011
to hugette clark, a great lady
may you find the peace in heaven with the lord you never found on earth.
Kelly
May 26, 2011
Ms. Clark may you be at Peace and dancing with your family and the angels. God Bless!
T Ferrett
May 26, 2011
Rest in Peace Ms. Clark. Rest in Peace.
Mary Ann D
May 26, 2011
Dear Miss Clark, I did not know you but I read about you in the newspapers. May you find peace.
Thomas/Cynthia Noyes
May 26, 2011
Miss Clark, May you rest in peace in Gods Arms with no Wars, no Famine and no Natural Disasters. Godspeed !
May 26, 2011
To the Clark family and friends ........My deepest condolence God will actually up death forever ,this is a promise God made and we can be sure he will keep it .
Mable
May 26, 2011
May God Give Her Family Strength In The Passing Of Ms Huguette Clark, She Is At Peace Resting In The Presence Of Jesus.
Monica Araiza
May 26, 2011
To the late Ms Huguette Clark,
I pray that your life was a wealth of happiness and joy; its not what or how much we have it is how well we have loved. I imagine you already know that. May you rest in peace Ms Clark.
May 26, 2011
I BELIEVE HEAVEN IS BEAUTIFUL, I AM SURE THAT IS WHERE YOU ARE GOING. LINDA SCHERER CUSTER SD
Pierre Pelmont
May 25, 2011
Que Dieu vous benisse et vous acceuille dans Son Royaume!
May 25, 2011
Miss Huguette, to me you were wise beyond your years, which you were blessed with many. I hope you find some peace and comfort in the arms of the angels..RIP
L. Wright
May 25, 2011
Miss Huguette, to me you were wise beyond your years, which you were blessed with many. I hope you find some peace and comfort in the arms of the angels..RIP
Paul Plamondon
May 25, 2011
To Ms. Clark's family members & Friends:
Please receive my sincere condolences.
Ms. Clark's life must have been quite interesting.
I will mention her in my 3-o'clock-PM prayer.(You see, I always say a prayer at 3 o'clock PM for Divine Mercy...It's very important especially with everything going on nowadays!...)
Sincerely,
Paul Plamondon
G. Hotchner
May 25, 2011
I am Happy your new Life is just Beginning.No more of this Nonsense here on earth'
Mrs. Hotchner
Frieda Norton
May 25, 2011
God blessed you with a long life that I pray was filled with lots of joy. Now enjoy your homecoming.
Maria Jones
May 25, 2011
I don't know Mrs. Clark but I read an article about her last year. All those years alone I hope now she is resting in peace reunited with her family that she's had to live without all these years.
Amy and Frank Rasmussen
May 25, 2011
We never knew you but have very much heard of her and sorry for your loss and hope all is well
Trent Martin
May 25, 2011
RIP Miss Huguette. I hope you find everlasting peace.
Trent D. Martin
Catherine Cooper
May 25, 2011
I have followed you since i was a child,You are now with a host of Angels,an can smile the smile you needed.You are a blessed child of God
May 25, 2011
Proverbs 10:22
Our sincere condolences.
anna angulo
May 25, 2011
I don't know why, but I'm feeling so intense about the lost. I can't explain it, but may she rest in peace.
Chloe Pokracki
May 25, 2011
RIP Miss Huguette. Although blessed with worldly riches, I hope you found happiness in the simple things.
Chloe Pokracki
louise wisinski
May 25, 2011
No longer alone. Now with the Lord and His angels. RIP
Barbara Huber
May 25, 2011
Rest in Peace Huguette, you were a wonderful person.God needed a special angel and he called you home
Joanne Vaughn
May 25, 2011
RIP Huguette
R.T. Ferguson
May 25, 2011
Absent from the body , present with the Lord !!!!!!
Eugen von Wurttemburg
May 25, 2011
Hughette was A truly fascinating and generous woman with great artistic talent; and, she may have also understood human nature all too well! R.I. P.
Eugen von Wurttemburg (San Diego , Ca. )
Terrel Jamett Clark
May 25, 2011
We are sorry for the loss of Miss. Clark. God bless her and the family. Forrest "Toppy" Clark, Terrel Jamett Clark, Frieda Louise Hudson Clark
Mary Stovall
May 25, 2011
Rest in Peace Miss Huguette
x-ray gypsy
May 25, 2011
Rest in Peace my Dear you have earned it.
find weath in smal thing...
Malika morse
May 24, 2011
she found what we forget we want a piece of mind.
Victoria Valdez
May 24, 2011
In Memory of "Huguette Clark"
The archive story of a Legacy
rip in serene peace H'Clark
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May 24, 2011
Rest in Peace, Ms. Clark. I hope your hand was held while you passed from this earth into Heaven. I am sure you are with your parents and family now that loved you.
R Golay
May 24, 2011
To the the family of Huguette Clark- May God give you peace and comfort through his word and the Lord Jesus Christ during this time of sorrow, I know that she will be missed by many.
Judy Harper
May 24, 2011
Rest in Peace Ms. Clark.
May 24, 2011
I pray Gods will is done with the blessings He gave her.
Cynthia Beatty
May 24, 2011
Wish I could have known you, not for your money but for your friendship.....God give you peace and love for Eternity!!!
JV Mason
May 24, 2011
This is a very sad story, May God rest her soul and she will be reunited with her family whom loved her.
SCOTT CHAMBERLAND
May 24, 2011
REST IN PEACE
J Burdorff
May 24, 2011
R.I.P. Huguette
May 24, 2011
Sorry about your lost. The bible at Ecclesiastes 12:13 gives great insight for all humans no matter who we are. Each one has his/her day. The best we can all do is what the above scripture says. May you all find peace.
Atlanta, GA
Tammy Hall
May 24, 2011
"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." ~Robert Ingersoll
RIP Ms. Clark...I hope your life was filled with happiness and love. I'm sure God is now holding you in his loving embrace.
Mary Bracy Patterson
May 24, 2011
Rest in peace,Dear Hugette.
Sheila Smith
May 24, 2011
Go in Peace. God bless.
Kate M Smith
May 24, 2011
A mystery surrounds her fortunes, but from what I've read of her, she lived a life with grace and dignity. Too bad those are qualities not found so much in present time. Godspeed Ms.Clark
Richard Hernandez
May 24, 2011
Rest in peace Ms.Clark you lived a long and wonderful life! May God keep you in His Heavenly Kingdom for eternity!
Praying for you!
Ann
May 24, 2011
Dear Ms. Clark,
I read your obituary with sadness. I hope you are at peace now, and justice will be served upon those who would have sought to exploit you.
AnitaGail Curtis
May 24, 2011
please rest in peace and the grace of God
STEVEN
May 24, 2011
RIP
May 24, 2011
R.I.P.
Jo-An
May 24, 2011
I did not know you but your later life sounded sad may you be at peace now
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