Claudette Colbert left most of her $3.5 million estate to a longtime friend who helped care for her after a debilitating stroke in 1993.
Helen O'Hagan, a retired Saks Fifth Avenue executive, had been a longtime Manhattan neighbor of the actress, who died July 30 at 92.Colbert's nine-page will was filed Wednesday in Manhattan Surrogate Court. It left $400,000 to 14 recipients, and the rest of her estate, including her homes in New York and Barbados, to O'Hagan.
Colbert won an Oscar for the 1934 romantic movie comedy classic, "It Happened One Night."
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She was widowed in 1968 and had no children.