A homeless man who didn’t know he was the heir to an almost $300 million dollar fortune has passed away.
The
body of Timothy Henry Gray, 60, was found under a railroad pass in
Wyoming Thursday night (Dec. 27). The coroner said he died of
hypothermia (the low temperature that day was 10 degrees) before
discovering he was the long lost relative of reclusive heiress Huguette
Clark.
NBC News reports:
Children sledding found the body of Timothy Henry Gray, 60, Thursday afternoon in Evanston, a small mining town in southwestern Wyoming near the Utah border.
Children sledding found the body of Timothy Henry Gray, 60, Thursday afternoon in Evanston, a small mining town in southwestern Wyoming near the Utah border.
The
coroner said it appeared he died of hypothermia. The low temperature
that day was 10 degrees, and had hit zero in the previous week. Lt. Bill
Jeffers of the Evanston Police Department said there was no evidence of
foul play, and Gray was wearing a light jacket.
Gray’s
siblings said they hadn’t heard from him since their mother’s funeral
in 1990, when he disappeared without a word. It wasn’t clear whether
Gray was living under the overpass, where transients have been known to
camp.
Tim
Gray was an adopted great-grandson of former U.S. Sen. William Andrews
Clark, known as one of the copper kings of Montana, a banker, a builder
of railroads and the founder of Las Vegas. The senator’s youngest
daughter, Huguette Clark, was a recluse who died in 2011 in New York
City at age 104, after living in hospitals for 20 years while her
palatial homes sat unused. Gray was her half great-nephew.
Sadly, no one knew who he was or that he was heir to fortune worth millions of dollars until after his death. [NBC]
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