The story of Hugette Clark, a reclusive copper heiress who died in 2011 at the age of 104 just keeps on getting stranger. Worth hundreds of millions of dollars at her death, she spent the last 20 years of her life as a private pay patient at New York’s Beth Israel Hospital. As the New York Times now reports, she was not in need of hospital treatment when she entered the hospital but was allowed to stay there "as long as the hospital didn’t need her bed". She was billed millions of dollars for her two decade stay at the hospital during which time she also made multi- million dollar gifts of cash and art to the institution as well as a million dollar bequest in her will.

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