What a sad life to lead, I suspect many more would also become recluses if they didn't have to go out to work to make money. On the will if she was of sound mind and not manipulated in any way when she made it then the nurse rightfully deserves it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguette_M._Clark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguette_M._Clark
Reclusive mining heiress leaves $30million to the nurse who was one of the only people to see her in 80 years
Heiress: Millionaire Huguette Clark died in a Manhattan hospital and has left a fortune to a nurse there who cared for her for more than 20 years
A reclusive mining heiress who died at the age of 104 has left $30million to the nurse who took care of her for two decades.
Huguette Clark, who died last month, spent 70 years locked away in her sprawling New York mansion, only emerging for medical appointments.
The Montana millionairess, who kept a family of dolls she treated as her children, has left most of her $400million fortune to the arts.
A nurse who was randomly assigned to her by an agency in 1991 and took care of her for 20 years will receive around $30 million after estate taxes.
She gave a prized Claude Monet water-lily painting not seen by the public since 1925 to Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art, her will said.
But she left nothing to anyone associated with Butte, the Montana mining town where her father made his first millions.
Nothing was left for her relatives either - who are likely to challenge the will in court, reported MSNBC.
Manhattan prosecutors have been looking into how her finances were handled while she spent the last two decades of her life in a hospital.
But Ms Clark left $500,000 to her lawyer and $500,000 to her accountant, despite a conviction and status as a registered sex offender.
Vacant: The mysterious Clark estate in Santa Barbara, which has been empty since 1963. It is worth more than $100 million
The daughter of one-time U.S. Senator William A. Clark was a virtual recluse and had previously lived in the largest apartment on Fifth Avenue.
Ms Clark left instructions for the creation of a foundation ‘for the primary purpose of fostering and promoting the arts’.
Her apartment is believed to have a 30ft library, a 40ft drawing room and 40ft living room as well as stunning views of Central Park.
It has 42 rooms covering 15,000 square feet in total.
Media interest: The Clark family have always been the subject of media speculation, particularly Huguette in recent years as many were fascinated by her reclusive lifestyle
Miss Clark owned various lavish mansions in California and Connecticut, also worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
But she never visited and left them vacant for more than 50 years.
When her father, mining tycoon and U.S. senator William Andrews Clark died in 1925, his millions were divided equally between his children from both his marriages.
When Huguette turned 21, she received $300million or $3.6billion in today's money.
The U.S. media then become obsessed with the life she led in almost total solitude with all that wealth.
She was such a recluse that the last known photograph of her was taken 80 years before her death aged 104.
Miss Clark, who was born in Paris in 1906, was briefly married in 1928, aged 22, to William Gower, a law student and Clark family employee.
But the couple soon separated, had no children, and divorced in less than two years, in the summer of 1930.
She then returned to the New York palace which she spent the rest of her life living in, aside from long periods in hospitals in the city.
Miss Clark was buried at her family's mausoleum in New York's Bronx district, where the only people present were funeral home employees as all other family were banned.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lion-nurse-people-80-years.html#ixzz1Q6IhSZYw
