Explore the world of heiress Huguette Clark from the No. 1 bestselling book Empty Mansions:
The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark
and the Spending of a Great American Fortune.
To begin, choose a photo gallery below.
Meet Huguette and her family
Go inside her mansions
The Whole Story
When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a portal into two centuries of American history. Learn more about Empty Mansions, by Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., Huguette's cousin and one of the few relatives to speak with her.
Tour the Clark treasures
Critically Acclaimed
Get the book that critics call "spellbinding," "fascinating" and "riveting." The story of the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark and her remarkable family is available in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audio book. Empty Mansions debuted as a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, and has been optioned for a feature film.
Childhood
Adulthood
Marriage and divorce
Jewelry
Self-portraits
French dolls
Exterior of Bellosguardo
Floor plans, 907 Fifth Avenue
Woodlawn
Generosity
Dollhouse furnishings
Japanese castles and houses
Bellosguardo, Santa Barbara, c. 1940
Her artwork
Anna, Huguette's mother
Huguette the artist, collector and patron
Gardens at Bellosguardo
Art student
Instruments
Inside 907 Fifth Avenue
Paintings at Bellosguardo,
Books, furnishings, other art
Outside Le Beau Château
Automobiles at Bellosguardo
Bellosguardo from the air
Andrée, Huguette's sister
W.A., Huguette's father
Rooms at Bellosguardo
Early days in France
Andrée's cottage at Bellosguardo
A collector's eye
Fairy tale houses
Etienne, her fiancé
Inside Le Beau Château, Connecticut
Japanese dolls
Staff and friends
907 Fifth Avenue exterior, New York
Beth Israel Medical Center, New York
The Copper King Mansion, Butte, Montana
