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Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

Biography

Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

Paul Clark Newell, Jr., a cousin of Huguette Clark, has researched the Clark family history for 20 years, sharing many conversations with Huguette about her life and family. He once received a rare private tour of Bellosguardo, her mysterious estate overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara.

Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

Books by Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr. - History, Nonfiction

When Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly 60 years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. EMPTY MANSIONS is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the 19th century with a 21st-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades.