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When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly 60 years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the 19th century with a 21st-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades.

Music, stories and utter nonsense from Angela McCluskey, Scottish singer of LA cult band Wild Colonials and the Grammy nominated French outfit Telepopmusik, and Paul Cantelon, her husband and BAFTA nominated film composer (The Other Boleyn Girl, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Oliver Stone’s ‘W’, Everything is Illuminated). ’You Could Start a Fight in an Empty House’ is a podcast born in the time of the pandemic. Pour yourself a drink, take off your mask and settle in.