Empty Mansions: Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
| Dates: | October 5, 2021 |
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| Meets: | Tu from 9:00 AM to 10:45 AM |
| Location: | Bozeman, MT C'mon Inn |
| Cost: | $0.00 |
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Bill Dedman, an American author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, will give a talk at this OLLI at MSU members-only event. Dedman is the co-author, along with Paul Clark Newell, Jr., of the biography "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune." The book spent 13 weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list and 37 weeks on the "Los Angeles Times" bestseller list when it was published in 2013. A television series based on "Empty Mansions" is currently in development. Dedman will discuss the sensational story of the reclusive heiress and daughter of Montana copper king, W.A. Clark, her eccentric relatives, and the perils of transferring a family fortune to the next generation.
Coffee social and book signing, 9:00 to 9:30 a.m.
Talk by Bill Dedman, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Q&A, 10:30 to 10:45 a.m.
Coffee social and book signing, 9:00 to 9:30 a.m.
Talk by Bill Dedman, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Q&A, 10:30 to 10:45 a.m.
| Fee: | $0.00 |
Bozeman, MT C'mon Inn
Bridger Room, second floorBill Dedman
Bill Dedman is a frequent speaker for nonprofit organizations, foundations, and financial companies, emphasizing the lessons learned from Huguette Clark's mistakes in estate planning. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1989 for "The Color of Money," a series of articles in "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" on racial discrimination by mortgage lenders in middle-income black neighborhoods.