That led to a series of articles on NBC's website, reports on the Today show, and in media around the world. This reporter noticed the house atop the real estate listings, when it was priced at $25 million, and saw that town records showed the house as being vacant since the owner bought it. That's when the house led to a discovery of Clark's reclusive life. An accepted offer at $21 million fell through when the market crashed in 2008. She rejected an offer for $25 million, because the appraisal had been a bit higher at $26 million.
The property was first listed at a price of $34 million. She agreed to sell the house to raise cash for the millions in gifts she was giving to her nurse, friends and strangers. Her Connecticut home originally hit the market in 2006. The shy painter and doll collector had lived the last 20 years of her life in a series of simple hospital rooms in New York while her homes in Connecticut, California and New York were unoccupied. Huguette, born in Paris in 1906, died in 2011 at age 104, just two weeks short of her 105th birthday. William Andrews Clark (1839-1925), one of the copper kings of Montana, a railroad builder, founder of Las Vegas, and one of the richest men of the Gilded Age. Huguette (pronounced "oo-GET") Marcelle Clark was the youngest child of U.S.
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