NEW YORK (AP) — A reclusive heiress to a Montana copper fortune showered her nurses, doctors and others with millions of dollars' worth of gifts before she died in New York last year.
Now the court-appointed official overseeing Huguette (HEW'-ghet) Clark's estate wants to reclaim a whopping $37 million in gifts.
In court papers filed last month, the Manhattan public administrator's office portrays a frail, secluded Clark exploited by a scheming retinue. But recipients say Clark was a generous, independent-minded woman who did exactly what she wanted in enriching people around her.
One nurse got almost $28 million in gifts, including three Manhattan apartments, two homes elsewhere and a $1.2 million Stradivarius violin.
Clark died at 104. A separate fight is roiling over what will ultimately become of her fortune.
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