The Phantom Of Fifth Avenue

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 382 pages. Ex-Library. (Only one small neat stamp on inside page and a light tape mark to cover). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her familys 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark, was a copper magnate, the second richest man in American, and not above bribing his way into the Senate. Huguette attended the coronation of King George V. And at twenty-two with a personal fortune of $50 million to her name, she married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later the couple divorced. After a series of failed romances, Huguette began to withdraw from society--first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company.All her money and all her real estate could not protect her in her later life from being manipulated by shady hangers-on and hospitals that were only too happy to admit (and bill) a healthy woman. But what happened to Huguette that turned a vivacious, young socialite into a recluse And what was her life like inside that gilded, copper cage

ISBN: 9781455512638