Up on a bluff on the Pacific Ocean sits Bellosguardo – or “Beautiful view.” – a $100 million dollar mansion owned by a reclusive billionaire and 104 year old heiress Huguette Clark. By any account the mansion is beautiful, and the estate is one that any person would love to call home. The thing is, the reclusive owner of the estate hasn’t been there in many decades. Neither has she ever stayed at her estate in Connecticut which she bought in 1952, and she has only rarely been seen at her suites in New York in the past 30 years. For the past few decades since the death of her mother Huguette been a reclusive figure, preferring to remain in the shadows, only talking with a few people, including her lawyer. She now lives in a hospital room, not necessarily because she’s sick, but because it’s easier for her to be there.  Read more... (941 words, 12 images, estimated 3:46 mins reading time)

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