• Homeless Heir To $300 Million Huguette Clark Fortune Found Dead From Hypothermia Under Wyoming Railr
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[quote]A homeless man who was the long-lost relative of reclusive New York railroad heiress Huguette Clark and a potential heir to her $300 million fortune has been found dead in Wyoming. Timothy Henry Gray, Clark's 60-year-old half great-nephew, was found dead under a Union Pacific Railroad overpass in Evanston, Wyo., on Thursday, NBC News reports. Children who were sledding nearby found Gray's body. Temperatures in Evanston, a mining town, had hit a low of 0 in recent days. The coroner said it appears the homeless heir, who could have inherited $19 million of Clark's $300 million fortune, had died of hypothermia, according to NBC. There was no evidence of foul play. Gray's siblings said their homeless brother disappeared after their mother died in 1990, according to the Associated Press. If Gray did not have a will, his siblings could receive his share in addition to their own, NBC explains. Gray was the adopted great-grandson of former U.S. Sen. William Andrews Clark, a wealthy copper miner, railroad builder and the founder of Las Vegas. Huguette was the youngest of William's seven children. Huguette died in May 2011 at 104 years old, after living as a recluse for decades, the New York Times previously reported. In the 1930s, she removed herself from Manhattan society and lived in solitude for the next quarter-century in her Fifth Avenue apartment surrounded by her dolls. In the 1980s, Huguette checked herself into a New York City hospital. She lived in hospitals around Manhattan until her death. Huguette's $300 million estate was contested by her extended family and several parties close to her. Two wills signed by the heiress spawned the legal conflict. One stated her fortune would be given to relatives, while the other, signed six weeks after the first, said none of her money would go to family members.[/quote] [url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/31/homeless-heir-found-dead-300-million-huguette-clark-fortune-found_n_2388339.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009]SOURCE & VIDEO REPORT[/url]
[QUOTE=usaokay;39066386]That's gotta suck not knowing you're related to a millionaire and you just end up dying cold and alone.[/QUOTE] What? Really? No it wouldn't.
[QUOTE=Zerohe;39066670]What? Really? No it wouldn't.[/QUOTE] Why would it not suck then? Don't tell me you believe in the "money is the root of all evil" thing.
[QUOTE=usaokay;39066386]That's gotta suck not knowing you're related to a millionaire and you just end up dying cold and alone.[/QUOTE] I always have the dim hope that one day some guy will arrive at my door and tell me I just inherited several millions.
It's story sounds like the setup to a murder mystery. "I my new will NOBODY in my family gets the money because you are all greedy pigs!"
[QUOTE=Zerohe;39066670]What? Really? No it wouldn't.[/QUOTE] Guys rating him dumb then asking why... knowing you're related... I doubt he knew and he died so how will he know?
"lifes a bitch, then you die."
[QUOTE=SexualShark;39066969]"lifes a bitch, then you die."[/QUOTE] That's why we get high, 'coz you know when you're gonna go.
[QUOTE=VagueWisdom;39066793]Why would it not suck then? Don't tell me you believe in the "money is the root of all evil" thing.[/QUOTE] It wouldn't suck, because you're fucking dead.
So he died under a railroad overpass and the fortune was to be inherited from a railroad heiress? wow.
[QUOTE=healthpoint;39067456]It wouldn't suck, because you're fucking dead.[/QUOTE] Well obviously, but either way it's pretty unfortunate for him. Although I'm atheist, if there was some small chance there was an afterlife and he found out after he died, you have to admit then it would actually suck.
This is like if Mr. Deeds had died. What a shame...
[QUOTE=Conna;39067132]That's why we get high, 'coz you know when you're gonna go.[/QUOTE] Word is born
Left home at 38 after his mom died, drifted for 22 years. That sucks.
How unlucky, if that happened before the temperatures would've went that low now he'd live in a warm, big house.
[QUOTE=VagueWisdom;39066793]Why would it not suck then? Don't tell me you believe in the "money is the root of all evil" thing.[/QUOTE] Historically, very poor/homeless people that have inherited large sums of money are no better off than they would have been otherwise. They don't know how to manage money, let alone a ridiculous sum of money and are often predated on by gold diggers and are quickly drained of everything they inherited. Even if he wasn't dead and inherited the $19m, at best he probably would have had a brief period of false prosperity before he lapsed back to being homeless. Homeless people are homeless for a reason, which is most of the time because they have untreated mental health issues that prevent them from being able to function in society. There are those extreme few that were able to turn their fortunes around with deals like this, but those stories are like a needle in a haystack of infinite size.
[QUOTE=Zerohe;39066670]What? Really? No it wouldn't.[/QUOTE] Are you dumb
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;39067924]This is like if Mr. Deeds had died. What a shame...[/QUOTE] id be okay with adam sandler dying honestly
Sounds like murder. Somebody else wanted that money.
I don't remember 0 degrees being cold enough to die of hypothermia if you've got any semblance of cloth on you. Oh well, the irony of fate.
[QUOTE=EcksDee;39089993]I don't remember 0 degrees being cold enough to die of hypothermia if you've got any semblance of cloth on you. Oh well, the irony of fate.[/QUOTE] There's a variety of other factors than just temperature. What if he was wet, or if it was really windy?
[QUOTE=EcksDee;39089993]I don't remember 0 degrees being cold enough to die of hypothermia if you've got any semblance of cloth on you. Oh well, the irony of fate.[/QUOTE] 0 degrees Fahrenheit is almost -18 degrees Celsius.
[QUOTE=EcksDee;39089993]I don't remember 0 degrees being cold enough to die of hypothermia if you've got any semblance of cloth on you. Oh well, the irony of fate.[/QUOTE] You can get hypothermia in temperatures as high as 10 degrees centigrade, it all depends on circumstance. If he was wet, the wind chill would be deadly. If he was malnourished his body wouldn't be able to keep up with his dropping core body temperature. I got hypothermia in a wetsuit in an environment at 6 degrees centigrade down a cave. I had dislocated my shoulder and couldn't move as well as the fact i hadn't eaten all day so I was hungry. You would be surprised how quickly your temperature drops in these situations. It's scary.
[QUOTE=usaokay;39066386]That's gotta suck not knowing you're related to a millionaire and you just end up dying cold and alone.[/QUOTE] Yes it would suck, But the best part about not knowing is that [I]you don't know[/I] and therefore don't have the knowledge that there is a reality in which you're not dying cold and alone and it is easily attainable.
[QUOTE=EcksDee;39089993]I don't remember 0 degrees being cold enough to die of hypothermia if you've got any semblance of cloth on you. Oh well, the irony of fate.[/QUOTE] You can get hypothermia sitting naked in your house. Mild hypothermia can be contracted by your body's core temperature dipping below just 95 degrees and escalates quickly if your conditions don't improve.
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