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Title: Inside the Deserted Mansions of an American Heiress
Post by: Pandora on February 16, 2015, 01:12:00 PM

She had three sprawling luxury homes at her disposal, but Huguette Clark chose to spend the last 20 years of her life holed up in a New York hospital room. (http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/02/13/inside-the-deserted-mansions-of-an-american-heiress/#)

Pictures are very .... interesting; some of them shades of "Downton Abbey".

eta:  H/T American Digest dot org

Title: Re: Inside the Deserted Mansions of an American Heiress
Post by: Libertas on February 16, 2015, 02:19:56 PM

Wonder if anything is in the safe?  Call Jerry Rivers!   :D

Title: Re: Inside the Deserted Mansions of an American Heiress
Post by: AlanS on February 16, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

Quote from: Libertas on February 16, 2015, 02:19:56 PM

Wonder if anything is in the safe?  Call Jerry Rivers!   :D

A Capone remake. ::laughonfloor::

Neat story. The only difference between eccentric and crazy is money.

Title: Re: Inside the Deserted Mansions of an American Heiress
Post by: Libertas on February 17, 2015, 06:09:55 AM

Quote from: AlanS on February 16, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

Quote from: Libertas on February 16, 2015, 02:19:56 PM

Wonder if anything is in the safe?  Call Jerry Rivers!   :D

A Capone remake. ::laughonfloor::

Neat story. The only difference between eccentric and crazy is money.

So, I'm a few bucks short...again.   ::facepalm::

Title: Re: Inside the Deserted Mansions of an American Heiress
Post by: richb on February 17, 2015, 06:45:01 PM

I will have to find the article about a woman in Paris,  who closed up her apartment (or co op,  I don't remember which) as the Nazis were approaching.   No one went in it during the war,  and she never returned after the war either.    But she paid the rent or assessments etc and no one entered the apartment for over 60 years.   Now those pictures are unbelievable. 

Title: Re: Inside the Deserted Mansions of an American Heiress
Post by: richb on February 17, 2015, 07:36:00 PM

http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/05/09/the-paris-time-capsule-apartment/ (http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/05/09/the-paris-time-capsule-apartment/)

Title: Re: Inside the Deserted Mansions of an American Heiress
Post by: Libertas on February 18, 2015, 06:29:12 AM

Everything looked normalish...then I saw an ostrich.   ;D

How was it some Nazi or Vichy didn't know about this place and kick in the door and rob it blind?  Seems impossible.