The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark (54 page)

Depositions:
André Baeyens, Jean-Loup Brusson, Geraldine Coffey, Ian Devine, Rodney Devine, Carla Hall, Erika Hall, Dr. Morton Hyman, Karine McCall, Paul Newell Jr., Dr. Robert Newman, Abraham Peri, Daniel Peri, David Peri, Geula Peri, Hadassah Peri, Steven Pyram, Dr. Jack Rudick, Danita Rudisill, Lewis Siegel, Dr. Henry Singman, Mildred Velasquez, Christie Ysit, Erlinda Ysit.

Articles:
Joshua Kosman, “Agnes Albert: Pianist, San Francisco Symphony Supporter,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, June 20, 2002; Paul Tharp, “Renoir Auction Scratches 10-Year Itch,”
New York Post
, April 3, 2003; Bill Dedman, “The Clarks: An American Story of Wealth, Scandal and Mystery,” msnbc.com, March 2010; Tim Trainor, “Where Is Huguette Clark?”
Montana Standard
, March 7, 2010; Steve Myers, “MSNBC Uses Slide Show for In-Depth Narrative Story,” Poynter.org, March 9, 2010; Erica Pearson and James Fanelli, “A 42-Room Palace Sits Empty,”
New York Daily News
, July 31, 2010; Bill Dedman, “Who Is Watching Reclusive Heiress’s Millions?” msnbc.com, August 20, 2010; Doug Auer, Laura Italiano, Dan Mangan, “Princess of Beth Israel,”
New York Post
, August 27, 2010; Todd Venezia, “New York’s Hermit Heiress and Her Sad Secrets,”
New York Post
, August 27, 2010; Rebecca Rosenberg, “D.A. Targets 104-Year-Old Heiress’ Gifts to Lawyer,”
New
York Post
, August 29, 2010; Jeanne MacIntosh, Ada Calhoun, Dan Mangan, “Heiress Phantom ‘Family,’ ”
New York Post
, August 31, 2010; Dan Mangan, “Heiress Kin to the ‘Re$cue,’ ”
New York Post
, September 4, 2010; “Heiress Wants Kin to Butt Out: Lawyer,”
New York Post
, September 8, 2010; Jennifer Peltz, “NY Judge: No Guardian for Copper Heiress, 104,” Associated Press, September 9, 2010; Margalit Fox, “Heiress to the High Life,”
New York Times
, May 25, 2011; Stephen Miller, “Society Girl Who Spent 8 Decades in Seclusion,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 25, 2011; “The Real Miss Havisham,” Asian News International, May 25, 2011; “Hermit Heiress from an Era of Excess,”
West Australian
, May 27, 2011; Marilyn McMahon, “Recluse, Yes; Cut Off from the World, No,”
Santa Barbara News-Press
, July 9, 2011; Marilyn McMahon, “Unraveling a Mystery,”
Santa Barbara News-Press
, May 29, 2011; Bill Dedman, “The $10 Million Degas Ballerina, Heiress Huguette Clark and the Tax Man,” msnbc.com, March 15, 2012; Alice Thorson, “Painting’s Story Touches Blochs, FBI and the Nelson,”
Kansas City Star
, March 15, 2012.

Documents:
Beth Israel e-mails, letters, and records; Irving Kamsler and Wallace Bock letters, billing records, drafts of wills; nurses’ notes; Christopher Sattler time sheets; Huguette M. Clark probate case, File 1995/1375, Manhattan Surrogate’s Court; Sotheby’s catalogue, November 1999.

Interviews:
Paul Albert, Wallace Bock, Harvey Corn, Celia Gray Cummings, John Dadakis, Ian Devine, Carl Distefano, John Graziano, Gerald Gray, Carla Hall, Irving Kamsler, Jason Lilien, Karine McCall, John Morken, Marie Pompei, Christopher Sattler, Wanda Styka.

Depositions:
Wallace Bock, Ian Devine, Gerald Gray, Irving Kamsler, Dr. Robert Newman, Hadassah Peri, Dr. Jack Rudick, Danita Rudisill, Christopher Sattler, Lewis Siegel.

Articles:
“Family Stiffed out of $400 Million Fortune,”
New York Daily News
; “Heiress Had Ill Will: Nurse $34 M, Kin 0,”
New York Post
, June 23, 2011; “All Dolled Up,”
New York Post
, November 20, 2011; “The Heiress and the Nurse,”
New York Post
, November 20, 2011; “Copper Heiress Signed 2 Wills in 2 Months,” Associated Press, November 28, 2011; Bill Dedman, “A $400 Million Twist: Huguette Clark Signed Two Wills, One to Her Family,” msnbc.com, November 28, 2011; Barbara Ross and Tracy Connor, “It’s 400M Battle of the Wills!”
New York Daily News
, November 28, 2011; Jason Sheftell and Erin Durkin, “Sheik-Down at Clark Apts,”
New York Post
, May 8, 2012; Elizabeth A. Harris, “Unraveling Some Mystery Surrounding the Homes of a Reclusive Heiress,”
New York Times
, March 20, 2012; Anemona Hartocollis, “Hospital Caring for an Heiress Pressed Her to Give Lavishly,”
New York Times
, May 30, 2013; David Montgomery, “Will the Corcoran Get the Monet?”
Washington Post
, January 31, 2013; Paul Sullivan, “In the Battle over the Estate of a Wealthy Recluse, Some Lessons,”
New York Times
, June 15, 2013; Anemona Hartocollis, “Two Wills, One Private Heiress,”
New York Times
, September 15, 2013; Anemona Hartocollis, “Tentative Deal in Battle over the Will of an Heiress,”
New York Times
, September 20, 2013; Dareh Gregorian, “$100 Million Suit: Hospital Hid Heiress Away,”
New York Post
, November 24, 2013.

Documents:
Legal filings, Huguette M. Clark probate case, File 1995/1375, Manhattan Surrogate’s Court. Christie’s catalogue, April 2012.

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