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Decline of a diva - and her mansion
As 2 antique dealers try to take over her affairs, family warns her and worries
Second of four chapters
By Lee Hancock
Staff Writer
Mary Ellen Bendtsens Swiss Avenue mansion was her world, and it was coming apart.
Almost desperate, she went along when her daughter, Frances Ann Giron, told city officials in June that the house would be sold so someone else could deal with its decades of disrepair.
Mary ellen bendtsen biography books
Mrs. Bendtsen wore party clothes the July morning a real estate broker came so she and her reclusive sister, Ann Pretty Annie McClamrock, could sign a listing agreement.1
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