Pinay nurse may get bulk of sale of heiress' Manhattan homes

NEW YORK – The Upper East Side properties owned by the late heiress Huguette Clark hit the market early this month and her Filipina nurse will receive the bulk of the sale.

Edwin Josue, a Filipino real estate broker of Halstead properties, explained that 62-year-old Filipina nurse Hadassah Peri will benefit the most from the sale of Clark’s properties.

The New York Times reported that based on Clark’s second will, Peri will receive 60 percent of the multimillionaire’s various assets, worth about $40 million, including investments and much of her real estate holdings not specifically bequeathed in the will.

 The three separate apartments located in Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue are now listed on the market for a total of $55 million.

 The three apartments, each about 5,000 square feet, take up a floor-and-a-half of the exclusive co-op building.

 Clark owns the whole eighth floor, which is divided into two separate apartment units. The one facing Central Park is listed at $19 million. The other is at $12 million.

 The largest of the three, apartment 12-W, located on the 12th floor facing Central Park, has 14 rooms.

 “Huguette Clark lived here in the 20’s, so after that you know it stayed empty but they were able to maintain it properly, so it is in fair and original condition. Huguette Clark actually stayed most of her last years at Beth Israel Medical Center with the famous Hadassah Peri, who is also our kababayan,” Josue said.

 Clark divorced young and had no children. She had been a recluse for most of her life. Her second will that named Peri as one of her beneficiaries is still being contested by her relatives at this time. ABS-CBN's North America News Bureau