Victor C. Agustin: The identity of the Filipina-American nurse who received houses and cars worth $30 million and who stands to inherit another $30 million in cash from a copper-mining heiress has finally been revealed in a forthcoming book about the fabulous wealth and the reclusive life of the nurse's generous mistress.The nurse had been previously identified by her Jewish name, Hadassah Peri, but Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, NBC Universal investigative reporter Bill Dedman, has found out that she was born in the town of Sapian in Capiz as Gicela Oloroso, with her father as a former vice mayor also of the same fishing town.Oloroso converted to Orthodox Judaism when she met and married in 1982 an Israeli immigrant and New York taxi driver, Daniel Peri."She paid for twenty years of schooling for the three Peri children...for their medical bills, piano lessons, violin lessons, and Hebrew lessons, their basketball and summer camps in upstate New York," wrote Dedman.
Huguette Marcelle Clark: Over the years, she developed a distrust of outsiders, including her family, because she thought they were after her money. She preferred to conduct all of her conversations in French so that others were unlikely to understand the discussion.
Then a former paralegal for Bock's law firm, Cynthia Garcia, said that Bock received many lavish gifts from Clark, including a $1.5 million gift after the September 11 attacks in 2001, to build a bomb shelter in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank near the homes of his daughters.
She died at Beth Israel Medical Center, in New York City, two weeks short of her 105th birthday. She had been moved a month earlier to an intensive-care unit and later to a room with hospice care. She had been living at Beth Israel under pseudonyms; the latest was Harriet Chase. The room was guarded and she was cared for by part-time private nurses. Her room on the third floor had a card with the fake room number "1B" with the name "Chase" taped over the actual room number. A criminal investigation into the handling of her money was ongoing at the time of her death.
She was entombed on the morning of May 26, 2011, in the family mausoleum in section 85 of Woodlawn Cemetery, located in The Bronx borough of New York City, before the cemetery gates were open to the public. Her attorney said she had specific instructions that no funeral service or mass be held.
