104 YEAR OLD HEIRESS HUGUETTE CLARK's $300 MILLION ESTATE RIPPED OFF BY DOCTORS, NURSE, HOSPITAL. LAWYERS & ACCOUNTANT

THE KUHNS REPORT

LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

The raiding, draining and marauding of an estate by health care professionals and attorneys is obscene. Case in point - - the estate of of multi-millionaire heiress Huguette Clark. Her estate is estimated to be $300 MILLION dollars.She was 104 years old when she passed in 2011. This case is a poster-child example  raising questions about aging, care giving and the fine line between involving possible gratitude and extracting gifts from an elderly, feeble, frail person.

 I look at this case and see hospital executives, lawyers, an accountant, a nurse and others who formed a small circle of  instigators who cut off  Huguette Clark from most everyone in her life. They made this wealthy woman  very dependent on their coven of greed. It looks to me that this group induced Clark, a very fragile, frail 104 year old to give them MILLIONS of dollars throughout her stay at the hospital where she  decided to reside paying the Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan  approximately $400, 000 a year. This group of greedy people argued that Clark was a clear-headed, sharp-minded woman who knew what she was doing when she made decisions that were unusual in her will.

Clark was surrounded by an expensive doll collection worth more than ONE MILLION  dollars and photos from her childhood. This wealthy lady living in the hospital appeared to be a great arrangement for the hospital and her caregivers.

Clark, a single woman had no children and had left most of her estate to charities - -nothing to her distant relatives. I see a big issue here as to whether there is a glaring ethical and reasonable limit of what caregivers , health professionals and advisers can ask for - - AND accept. I think that professionals and institutions such as hospitals should be held accountable for their greedy actions.

Huguette Clark owned the largest apartment on New York's Fifth Avenue. a mansion in Santa Barbara, California and a 52 acre estate in New Canaan, Connecticut. According to court records during Clark's stay at Beth Israel Hospital her main nurse, Hadassah Peri  received over 30 MILLION dollars in gifts and presents which I would suspect was by "hook or crook." Some of these extravagant gifts and presents over the years included but was not limited to  multiple Manhattan apartments, a $1.2 MILLION dollar Stradivarius violin and a doll collection worth over $1 MILLION dollars. Her primary physician Dr.  Henry Singman received more than $500,000 or more IN CASH as Christmas presents,  she even covered some of her primary doctors medical expenses and paid part of his granddaughter's college tuition. The will also leaves him $100,000 (which he says he will relinquish) before  testifying at trial..

Folks, this money grab by these health care people, such as doctors,nurses, hospitals, lawyers and an accountant doesn't stop there . The Beth Israel Hospital apparently conned, made misrepresentations and slick talked this 104 year old  little old lady out of  HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars in cash and gifts., a multi-million dollar painting by  Edouard Manet worth $3.5 MILLION and a MILLION dollar bequest to the hospital. And believe it or not hospital records,  emails and memos from hospital administrators and leaders disclosed that they were trying to find ways to get even more  from poor Ms. Clark.

Within a few months of Ms. Cark's arrival at the hospital in 1991, a fundraiser person visited her room once a week. By the next year Clark had given the hospital $145,000, but that  was not good enough for  the hospital staff. According to a memo from a hospital staffer "Here's hoping we end up with even bigger bucks." Can you imagine! The hospital's then-president. and even his mother urged Ms. Clark to prepare a will, though he told her he wasn't trying to suggest a bequest? REALLY? The hospital told Clark it was preparing to sell the building that Clark was residing in and was  going to move her to another building in 2004 BUT hospital executives told her that she could STOP the sale by giving the hospital $125 Million dollars. Conned again? You bet. These low lifes did a number on Clark.

Personally, in my opinion I believe that  the hospital, doctors, nurses, Clark's lawyers and accountant milked Clark, an ill, sick, little old ladyout of everything they could so they could stuff their own pockets .

NEWS UPDATE:  - - - Now, just a day or two ago jury selection started over the validity of the April 2005 will. This  wealthy, elderly lady had very minimal contact with any of her distant relatives over the years thanks to the isolation plan put into action by this group of  money-grubbing idiots.  It looks to me as if this group of health care professionals, in collusion with her lawyers and accountant kept her isolated from any and all contact with the outside world so they could use her for their own piggy bank to satisfy their own financial needs. That's sad.

Well, it appears now that before  the case goes to court both sides came to an agreement and made a deal: According to the deal Clark's chief nurse, Hadassah Peri, would get nothing from Clark's will and would have to return $5 MILLION dollars and the expensive doll collection worth more than $1 MILLION dollars. Again, personally, I think this nurse still made out  like a bandit- -What about  the $30 MILLION in real estate, gifts and presents she  already received. A $5 MILLION payback is nothing,. Clark's lawyer would also get nothing. WOW! But what about all the other millions he received allegedly representing Clark and her best interests before her death? Remember Clark was taken to Beth Israel Medical Center way back in 1991. This group of vultures had Clark secreted away at their medical center at their mercy for at least 20 years.

I should mention that this group of individuals which I can best describe as conniving, scheming sleaze was receiving all of the gifts, presents, etc., worth millions , ON TOP of their fees.

People if a deal wasn't made nurse  Peri would stand to receive $30 MILLION dollars in the disputed will and Clark's accountant and lawyers who had already received cash, gifts and presents in addition to their fees over the years stood to make millions more in  substantial fees as executors of Clark's estate. Now to my knowledge they get nothing from the will.

Clark's relatives  said that hospital executives, medical professionals and Clark's lawyers and accountant took advantage of their access to the heiress and further did manipulate their way into the millions of dollars that Clark had. I tend to agree with them.

SLEAZE, SLEAZE, SLEAZE - - I should mention that this type of action by ripping off affluent, rich elderly people that are hospitalized, sick and possibly near deaths door is not uncommon. In fact, over the past couple of years there have been numerous cases cited on television , in print and on  electronic media showing doctors, nurses, lawyers and accountants doing the same thing as what was done to Ms. Clark. These  ripoff artists  isolate and detach the victim from relatives, friends and associates, then they proceed to give and take away proper health care to manipulating the sick, ill person letting them know that they are the only ones that can care for them and that they, these caregivers , attorneys, and accountants know what is best for them. Thus,  they intimidate the victim to  give up their cash, assets, etc., and  on occasions have the person draft a will bequeathing them substantial assets.

I think there should be a law preventing doctors, nurses, health care people, accountants and lawyers from receiving such gifts from the sick, ill and dying in their charge. There seems to be no transparency as to what is happening behind closed doors of hospital rooms, curtained hospital beds or in the seclusion of  the victims own home.- And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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