Filipino American nurse Hadassah Peri earned windfall wealth in New York working as a caretaker for Huguette Clark after 20 years.
She may look like a typical nurse seen on the wards of any American hospital. But the reclusive Hadassah Peri just inherited a staggering $33million from the famed New York copper heiress Huguette Clark.
The Filipino-born mother was seen in the streets of New York when news of her amazing windfall hit media after the death of Miss Clark in June 2011 at the ripe age of 104. Clark had not been seen in 70 years. She spent most of her time in her sprawling apartment block on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
There the Filipino nurse tended to Miss Clark for 20 years. She was randomly assigned by an employment agency in the 1990s.
Mrs Peri was paid a salary of $131,000 per annum working for the reclusive Miss Clark, who died with a $400 million fortune. The 61-year-old nurse’s 2001 Bentley Arnage sedan cost $204,000, and her Lincoln Navigator SUV was around $42,000.
The mother of three, lives in luxury with her husband, with a total of five properties to her name. The properties include a three-story brick home in Manhattan Beach, complete with a swan-filled canal, and a $500,000 beach house on an exclusive strip of the Jersey Shore.
It is an amazing life for the Filipino who migrated to the US in 1972. But her American dream began when she landed the job with Miss Clark, whose fortune was founded on her father’s Montana copper empire.