She Owned 3 Mansions but Lived 20 Years in a Hospital Room

May 24, 2011. New York City.

In a hospital room, a 104-year-old woman took her last breath.

At the hospital, she had gone by the name "Harriet Chase."

It wasn't her real name.

Her real name was Huguette Clark.

She left behind more than $300 million.

A 42-room apartment on Fifth Avenue. A 23-acre estate by the sea in California. Another estate in Connecticut.

Staff kept every one of them in perfect order, ready for the day she came home.

She never did.

She spent the last 20 years of her life in a hospital room.

Why?

Almost no one knew.