6/23/2023 0 Comments Mrs. Astor Regrets by Meryl Gordon![]() Is this an area in which you’ve always been interested? ![]() The Phantom of Fifth Avenue is your second book about New York high society. ![]() Phantom is out in hardback from Grand Central publishing. Gordon in the Upper West Side apartment she shares with her husband, the journalist Walter Shapiro, where she discussed the riddle of Huguette Clark and the thrill of writing about a city full of fabulously wealthy ghosts. The result, The Phantom of Fifth Avenue, offers an alluring, enigmatic portrait of a woman who shunned virtually all face-to-to face interaction during her last decades, the final two of which she elected to spend-despite good health-in a hospital bed, as her palatial residences on Fifth Avenue, and in Connecticut and California sat dormant. ![]() Gordon was asked by her publisher to train her Social Register expertise on Ms. And when Huguette Clark-heiress to the copper mining fortune of her father, the robber baron Senator William Andrews Clark-died at 104 in 2011, leaving behind a fiercely-contested will, Ms. ![]() Astor Regrets, NYU professor and New York and Vanity Fair contributor Meryl Gordon chronicled the sad and tawdry unraveling of one of the city’s most storied families. (Photo courtesy of the Estate of Huguette M. Huguette Clark, seated apparently at home. ![]()
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