The fabulously wealthy heiress who lives in a Manhattan hospital room gave her longtime nurse cash to buy homes worth nearly $2 million, the woman's lawyer said Wednesday.
Huguette Clark, 104, gave Filipino-born nurse Hadassah Peri money to buy four properties, including a $700,000 house in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and a $500,000 home on a golf course on the Jersey Shore.
The generous centenarian, who's worth an estimated $500 million and owns a palatial Fifth Ave. spread, also gave Peri money to buy upper East Side pads for her children to use, MSNBC said.
Authorities are looking into allegations that Clark may be a victim of elder abuse or fraud.
Besides giving cash to Peri, Clark also reportedly showered relatives of her longtime lawyer, Wallace Bock, 78, with pricey gifts.
She gave a dollhouse worth more than $10,000 to his granddaughter, his spokesman confirmed. She also funded a $1.5 million security system for the Jewish settlement where his daughters live in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The gifts to Peri, 60, were tokens of Clark's appreciation for Peri's spending long hours at the hospital as Clark's private nurse, lawyer John Reiner said.
A paralegal who worked for Bock has accused him of fleecing his elderly client.
Bock's spokesman ridiculed the claim by Cynthia Garcia, saying she was only after "15 minutes of fame."
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