{"id":16404,"date":"2013-09-21T13:29:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T17:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=16404"},"modified":"2013-09-21T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T17:29:24","slug":"lawsuits-of-the-filthy-rich-more-huguette-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=16404","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuits of the Filthy Rich: More Huguette Clark!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have gotten so tired of this Huguette Clark lawsuit<\/a> thing. I mean, she was reclusive in life but almost exhibitionist post mortem<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But still, I wrote about this estate battle<\/a> several times and feel obligated now to write about it maybe for the last time because, as the Times says, there’s a settlement deal in the works<\/a>, thanks to the ministrations of the New York State Attorney General.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of rather juicy paragraphs:<\/p>\n

As jury selection began in a lawsuit filed by her relatives, a tentative settlement was brokered by the New York State attorney general\u2019s office over the last few days. Under the settlement, the family would get about $34.5 million after taxes. Mrs. Clark\u2019s lawyer, Wallace Bock, and accountant, Irving Kamsler, would get nothing; her nurse, Hadassah Peri, would get nothing and would have to give back $5 million, according to lawyers involved in the case. Mr. Bock, Mr. Kamsler and Mrs. Peri would be able to keep gifts that Mrs. Clark had left them while she was alive \u2014 in Mrs. Peri\u2019s case, more than $30 million worth. <\/em><\/p>\n

Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, the hospital where Mrs. Clark lived for the last 20 years of her life, would get the $1 million she gave it in her second will, the parties said, and her doctor, Henry Singman, would get $100,000. But the hospital and Dr. Singman could be subject to further court proceedings challenging gifts they had received outside the will, one of the parties said. <\/em><\/p>\n

As I wrote recently, when very rich people are dying, vultures will improperly feed off the live body. Bring it to court, though, and the vultures have to regurgitate a few of the body parts.<\/p>\n

I’m almost tempted to say, “Poor Huguette Clark.” But that’s the problem: she wasn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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