Ex-paralegal: Heiress gave a lot to lawyer

NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A former paralegal for a New York lawyer says his star client, heiress to a copper fortune, once gave his granddaughter a $10,000 dollhouse.

Cynthia Garcia told the New York Post that Huguette Clark was so generous to Wallace Bock her gifts became a joke at his law firm. She is also said to have donated $1.5 million to build a bomb shelter in the Israeli community where one of his daughters lives.

Staffers once created a phony will making him Clark's major beneficiary and gave it to him at a holiday party.

Clark is now 104. She now lives at Beth Israel Medical Center and has not seen in her 42-room apartment in Manhattan or her houses in California and New Canaan, Conn., for decades.

The Manhattan District Attorney is investigating whether Bock and accountant Irving Kamsler have cheated the heiress.

Garcia told the Post that Bock recently telephoned her after several years without communication and asked her not to talk about his relationship with Clark.

"What they're doing to her is horrible," Garcia said.

Clark's father, William Clark, was a onetime school teacher who made a fortune in copper. He represented Montana in the U.S. Senate for a single term and died in 1925.