![]() ![]() Then in 1928 she married William MacDonald Gower, a relationship which only lasted one year before their separation and eventual divorce in 1930. Andrée, William, and Huguette Clark in 1917. Her feelings of sadness were compounded when her father died in 1925 and she and her mother moved to California. Huguette lost her older sister, Andrée, in 1919 to meningitis. However much she had been born into a family of unfathomable wealth and prestige, Huguette would go on to suffer from extreme paranoia and isolation, something which continued until her death. To give a sense of the vast fortunes we are talking about here the Clark House was rumored in 1910 to have cost him $7M which would be around $184M in today’s cash. William and his family soon moved into an opulent mansion on 5th Avenue in New York. Her father, the wild-eyed William Clark, had made his fortunes in copper mining, banking, and railroads. Huguette Marcelle Clark was born in 1906 into a wealthy family. ![]()
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