Filipina nurse inherits $33M from American heiress

Huguette Clark (right) with her sister  Andrée (left) and her father in this 1917 photo. 

MANILA, Philippines—A Filipina nurse inherited $33 million (not $2 million as earlier reported) from mysterious American heiress Huguette Clark, a news report said.

Hadassah Peri also earlier received $2 million from Clark to  buy properties, which include a $700,000 house in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and a $500,000 home in a golf course in the Jersey Shore, the New York Daily Times said in a report.

“I was her private duty nurse, but also her close friend,” Peri, 60, an immigrant of the Philippines and a married mother of three, was quoted by the New York Daily Times as saying through a spokesman.

“I knew her as a kind and generous person with whom I shared many wonderful moments and whom I love very much,” added Peri, who saw Clark every day for 20 years. “I am profoundly sad at her passing, awed at the generosity she has shown me and my family.”

The report also said that Clark, who was worth $400 million, also left $500,000 each to her lawyer, Wallace (Wally) Bock, 79, and her accountant, Irving Kamsler, 64.

Clark  died on May 24, aged 104, leaving behind empty mansions and a dispute over her fortune.

Clark, inherited his father’s fortune, a US senator and a copper mining tycoon. She grew up in a New York mansion with 121 rooms.

Reports said she lived in isolation and refused to be photographed. She was said to live in recluse after her childless, short-lived marriage at age 22.

Her last photograph known dates to the day her divorce came through, August 11, 1930.

Clark  spent the last 22 years of her life in New York hospital rooms, with no known illness.

With a report from Agence France-Presse