By Frances Mangosing
INQUIRER.net
A Filipina nurse inherited $33 million (not $2 million as earlier reported) from
mysterious American heiress Huguette Clark, a news report said.
Hadassah Peri also earlier received $2 million from Clark to buy properties, which include a $700,000 house in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and a $500,000 home in a golf course in the Jersey Shore, the New York Daily Times said in a report.
“I was her private duty nurse, but also her close friend,†Peri, 60, an immigrant of the Philippines and a married mother of three, was quoted by the New York Daily Times as saying through a spokesman.
“I knew her as a kind and generous person with whom I shared many wonderful moments and whom I love very much,†added Peri, who saw Clark every day for 20 years. “I am profoundly sad at her passing, awed at the generosity she has shown me and my family.â€
The report also said that Clark, who was worth $400 million, also left $500,000 each to her lawyer, Wallace (Wally) Bock, 79, and her accountant, Irving Kamsler, 64.
Clark died on May 24, aged 104, leaving behind empty mansions and a dispute over her fortune.
Clark, inherited his father’s fortune, a US senator and a copper mining tycoon. She grew up in a New York mansion with 121 rooms.
Reports said she lived in isolation and refused to be photographed. She was said to live in recluse after her childless, short-lived marriage at age 22.
Her last photograph known dates to the day her divorce came through, August 11, 1930.
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