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Mysterious Heiress' "Next of Kin" Do Not Exist
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Jaya Saxena
Published Aug 31, 2010
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As the Manhattan DA investigates how lawyers have been handling 104-year-old Huguette Clark's $500 million fortune, they've found she has been living under an assumed name in Beth Israel hospital, and that those listed as her "next of kin" do not even exist. She lists a "Jose River" as a husband, though she has not been married since 1930, and says he can be reached "c/o Justina Batien." There is apparently no record of anyone with that name in the US. A close friend of hers previously said, "Her closest friends have always been her dolls," so let's just hope she didn't list them as her contacts.
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