As his heir, she received a sizable income from the Twain estate every year. She was born in 1874, was present at her father’s death in 1910, and died in San Diego in 1962. Clara readily agreed, for she was devoted to the men in her life-to her first husband, pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch to her second husband, Samossoud and to her father, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known everywhere as Mark Twain.Ĭlara Clemens Samossoud was Samuel Clemens’s middle daughter, the only one of his four children to survive him. This money he used to wager and to pay off debts from an addiction that Clara had no idea was consuming him-betting on horses.īy 1951, Jacques’s horse-track debt had become so large that he insisted they auction off their Hollywood home and much of Clara’s reserve, the papers and belongings of America’s greatest author. Then there were the three promissory notes, totaling $350,000, that Jacques signed to Clara. Then there were gambling trips to Las Vegas that Clara financed and from which Jacques came home empty.
(His conducting career had apparently ended without fanfare.) First there was $30,000 for a foray into movie production, which failed. He began borrowing from Clara’s ample assets-valued in the hundreds of thousands-for a few investment schemes of his own.
In a nod to the New Age, she wrote of their union as “positively miraculous in its multifarious strata of rainbowism.” He was 50, and she was 70.Ĭlara was in love and Jacques was in clover. (Nearly all his claims were lies.) Jacques Samossoud was the man and Clara was smitten. Soon she met and started dating a dashing Russian émigrè musician, who claimed to have conducted many of the world’s greatest orchestras and to be well-acquainted with several U.S. Known also by his epithet the Human Radio, Sardoney channeled news that a fresh husband was in transit and that Clara could not “escape this appointment with Destiny.” The irrepressible Clara opened herself to the possibility.
In 1940, the recently widowed and wealthy Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch bought a small estate in the Hollywood hills and sought counsel from a medium named Sardoney about her love life.
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