When her mother died in 1963, it seems Clark, who never was very social, began retreating further. She was married for a little more than a year, in 1928, and never remarried, though her letters show she kept in touch with her ex-husband throughout his life. She grew up in a 121-room mansion on Fifth Avenue and 77th Street in Manhattan. She was born in Paris in 1906 and spoke English with a slight French accent. And thus, the series, and eventually the book, were born.Ĭlark was the youngest daughter of William Andrews Clark, a Gilded Age tycoon who made his fortune in the copper industry. "My editors said, `I would read that,' " he said.
So Dedman went to his editors at NBC News and pitched them the story, which he said was outside of his typical investigative beat. He was asking me, 'Do you think she died?' I said, `I don't know.'"ĭedman said he dug around in public records and visited Clark's apartment in Manhattan, where he met the doorman, who told him Clark had not been there in 20 years. "I said, `I don't know anything.' All he knew was that he got paid by ( Clark's attorney Wallace Bock) every month. "It was so surprising to me that he was asking me questions," Dedman said. When Dedman arrived at 104 Dans Highway he met the caretaker at the iron fence, which blocks the entrance to the long driveway that leads up to the house.
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