Maybe it's just me, but I'm absolutely fascinated that there is a woman, allegedly still alive, whose father was born in 1839. In that year, Lincoln was merely a 30 year old lawyer in Illinois. The daguerreotype had recently been invented. This was a whole fifty years before the advent of electricity. Mind blowing.

Agree with your level of fascination. Supposedly, my generation was supposed to be the 13th American-born generation (assuming your family has been in the US since 1776 at some rate of reproduction every 22-28 years), but if her family was reproducing at this rate, she'd basically be 3rd4-th generation. Insane.

I know it doesn't really work that way, but it's amazing to think that her paternal grandfather COULD have been born in the 1700s.

What a coincidence, my name happens to be Jose River, and my sister is Justina Batien. I'll take a 100 million in cash and the rest in a cashiers check, thanks.

good one. start filing the name change papers!

I'm sorry, but Huguette Clark's adopted son, Wallace Bock, Esq., is listed as the sole beneficiary in her will.

Who is named Huguette? Got to be Hugh. My theory: a man, a nutty man born to a nutty family and presented for some nutty reason as a woman, then married to a nut for a brief time, then . . .

Never mind. This whole story is too nuts.

This is very suspicious. Was Clark's lawyer, Wallace Bock, responsible for providing this false information to the hospital? Why was she living in a hospital in the first place? Yes, Huguette Clark is elderly and infirm, but she could easily be cared for by nurses/caregivers in one of her luxurious homes.

Now you have to consider what other suspicious things will be discovered in her will. I wonder if the investigators have gotten to that yet.

So, she was married after she was 24-104?

Holy shit balls.

I've been following this story and find it fascinating. Is she really still alive? No one seems to have been able to even confirm that.

Every article I've read says that she's alive, and has been at Beth Israel Hospital for years.

They keep saying that, but I don't think anyone has actually seen her or talked to her.

The most recent MSNBC article said that a distant relative insisted on seeing her to assure other family members that she is alive and being taken good care of. The relative was allowed to see her, but she was sleeping.

I commented on the previous story, but I will comment here again.

That is SO a dude in the picture.

I bet everyone looked like that nearly 100 years ago

OK, I'll give you the follow-up comment you crave, so you don't have to keep repeating that on every future story.