5/29/2023 0 Comments Huguette clark bookUp close, Bellosguardo appears to be in pristine condition. Though the property has 1,000 feet of frontage on the water, and the view of the ocean is stunning, Bellosguardo is so well hidden by trees that one has to fly over the property to get a look at it. The 23-acre property, with a 21,666-square-foot French mansion high on a mesa above Santa Barbara's East Beach, has been the subject of legend here for decades. Gallery: Take a Tour of Huguette Clark's Empty Mansion, Bellosguardo He’d been here before, on Huguette's invitation a decade ago, as we described in our book about the Clark family, "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune." I was accompanied by Huguette's cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr. She is believed to have last visited in about 1953. This weekend the estate administrators allowed me to be the first journalist to report on a tour of Bellosguardo, one of the empty estates owned by Huguette Clark, the reclusive heiress to a copper fortune that at one time rivaled that of the Rockefellers.
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