![]() And at 907 Fifth Avenue, overlooking Central Park, there were not one but three apartments in her name. She had a bigger place, Bellosguardo, in Santa Barbara, California, where she hadn't been seen for 50 years. It turned out that the house belonged to Huguette Clark – a woman who hadn't set foot in it since buying it in 1951. ![]() This was in 2009, a year into the great recession, and "the beautiful castle" was on offer at $24m – down from the original asking price of $35m. One of the houses he chanced upon was Le Beau Château, a 22-room pile set in 52 acres of prime Connecticut. Indeed, the book starts out with its main author, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman, trawling the web looking at houses he " really couldn't afford". ![]() I n case you couldn't tell from the title, or the soft-focus shot of a mammoth slab of French baroque on the cover, Empty Mansions is a piece of property porn. ![]()
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