This was a great book.  There are so many people from the gilded age, or families I should say, that acquired an enormous amounts of money who you have never heard of. Huguette Clark is who this book is about and her whirlwind life. She had, she has passed, a house that she purchased for protection, isolation if you will, and never actually moved in. If I remember correctly it was furnished but at the very least she had done a lot of work there. What drew me to this was that she lived most of her life in 740 Park which was another book I had read.

It was a great book, the history was very detailed and I found it all super interesting. It ended up, like a lot of people in her situation, lots of money and alone, that she was a recluse. She had several properties, there is one in California called Bellosguardo where the inside had not been updated since the 1950s. I can't remember when the last time she had visited the site, but it was basically always ready for living. It also sheds light on the years of fighting that goes along with these huge family fortunes. How what people want done with their things when they pass away really doesn't matter. It was a sad ending because you wonder when she was knowing what was happening and when she lost that - or if she ever lost that. She was just short of 105 when she passed I believe.