That’s the legal stance the executors of her estate are now taking as they seek the return of $105 million in gifts the wealthy recluse gave to doctors and employees in her last decades of life.
After three years of litigation, it’s the first time the executors have used the insanity argument.
The move is “a measure of their desperation,” Lawrence Fox, an attorney for Beth Israel Hospital, said in recent court papers.
Executors would have to prove that she did not have a single “lucid episode” from age 84 until she died in 2011 — even though she closely tracked the 2000 Bush vs. Gore election recount and the stock market, Fox argues.
This current court fight comes eight months after Clark’s 20 distant relatives won a $34.5 million settlement in a separate will contest. Other payouts in that previous estate battle include $85 million to a California arts foundation established in the heiress’ memory, $35 million to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, and a whopping $24.5 million in legal fees.
Now the executors, on behalf of the family, are going after over $100 million that Clark gave away during her lifetime.
The executors’ attorney, John Morken, criticized Fox and the other defendants for seizing on the salacious term “insane.”
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Executors of Huguette Clark’s estate claim she was insane