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Huguette Clark was already a mystery. Now there are new glimpses into the life of the reclusive heiress.

The daughter of a disgraced former U.S. senator, Huguette inherited millions from the Montana copper mines, and has lived a solitary life while her three fabulous homes sit empty: a $100 million estate on the Pacific Coast in Santa Barbara, a $24 million country house in Connecticut and a $100 million co-op, the largest apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park — all immaculately kept but unoccupied for decades.

As Huguette has just marked her 104th birthday in an ordinary hospital room in New York, there are unanswered questions as well:

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Heiress kin: We got Jewed!
Estate fight vs. Beth Israel
By ISABEL VINCENT and MELISSA KLEIN
Last Updated: 1:55 AM, December 2, 2012
Posted: 1:36 AM, December 2, 2012

Call it Operation Smurf.

Beth Israel Medical Center honchos plotted to ply heiress Huguette Clark with Smurfs in order to get cash from their wealthiest patient, according to a new court filing obtained by The Post.

One hospital official suggested sending the childlike, then-86-year-old recluse a birthday gift of Smurf or Flintstone balloons, noting that “Smurfs are her new favorite cartoon.”

Hospital CEO Dr. Robert Newman enlisted his own elderly mother to befriend the aged multimillionaire and visit her hospital room on a daily basis “with the objective of obtaining even more purported gifts,” the papers allege.

At one point, Newman’s mom was directed to keep asking Clark for a cash gift “even if she changes the subject to Smurfs or Flintstones.”

In 1998, she was dispatched to endure a Smurf movie with Clark and advise her during the viewing about “the great joy and spiritual satisfaction of preparing her will” — a document executives hoped would shower the hospital with riches, court papers charge.

“I kid you not! My mom spent 30 minutes watching the Smurfs celebrate Christmas: she deserves a medal,” Newman reported, according to court papers.

The childless copper heiress, before her death in 2011 at the age of 104, lived voluntarily at Beth Israel for the last two decades of her life, despite no real need for hospital care. She had few visitors, played with dolls from her collection and watched cartoons.

Clark’s distant relatives are fighting for control of her $306 million estate, alleging that her caregivers — including lawyer Wallace Bock and accountant Irving Kamsler, who are being investigated for their handling of Clark’s affairs — conspired to get her cash.

The new filing by Public Administrator Joy Thompson seeks the return to Clark’s estate of more than $40 million in gifts Clark made during her life, including $4 million she gave to Beth Israel, $34.5 million she gave to her private nurse, Hadassah Peri, and her family, and $2.3 million she gave to a Beth Israel doctor and his wife.

Thompson alleges that Clark’s physical and mental condition left her “subject to Beth Israel’s influence and control and not able to make a free and intelligent decision in response to any request Beth Israel might make for a gift.”

In 1998, hospital execs discussed whether to alert their own legal department that she could die without a will.

“If we raise the issue with them, they might push the question of whether she should even be living at the hospital,” an unnamed hospital official is quoted as saying.

Among the gifts Clark gave to Beth Israel were nearly $1 million in donations and an Impressionist painting by Edouard Manet, which it later sold for $3.5 million.

Beth Israel responded: “We are disappointed at the attempt to take back charitable donations that Ms. Clark freely made to Beth Israel to express her gratitude for the hospital’s lifesaving and compassionate care and her recognition of the hospital’s important mission.”
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Kin of heiress Huguette Clark say she was incoherent and unwell at time of will signing
By JEANE MACINTOSH and JULIA MARSH
Last Updated: 5:26 AM, July 8, 2013
Posted: 1:35 AM, July 8, 2013

Frail Manhattan heiress Huguette Clark mumbled incoherently and couldn’t hold a pen without help when she signed her $300 million fortune away to her lawyer, doctor and employees, according to new court filings.

The will signing — held in a dark hospital room at Beth Israel Hospital under the watchful eye of Clark’s lawyer-beneficiary, Wallace Bock — took less than five minutes to cut out the reclusive Clark’s family completely, claim the papers.

What’s more, according to the documents, Bock and Clark’s accountant, convicted sex offender Irving Kamsler , were so thrilled that Clark signed the controversial document that “they went straight from the hospital to a bar to celebrate. Presumably the [will] went to the bar along with them.”

Relatives of the railroad baroness, who died in 2011 at age 104, revealed disturbing details of the April 2005 will signing in Manhattan Surrogate Court papers filed last week. Their action opposed a motion by Bock to find the will was properly executed and that Clark knew what she was signing.

The will superseded a previous document, signed in March 2005, that left $5 million to Clark’s personal nurse, Hadassah Peri, and the rest of the estate to Clark’s relatives.

According to Bock assistant Danita Rudisill, Clark “mumbled something incoherent” and signed the document “very slowly, with some difficulty,” the family’s court filing said.