A 22-room Connecticut mansion that multimillionaire recluse Huguette Clark owned but never lived in has been sold for the bargain-basement price of $15.9 million.
The house, known as “Le Beau Chateau,’’ had been on the market nine years for $32 million.
The buyer of the mansion — which boasts nine bedrooms, 11 fireplaces and 52 acres of grounds in New Canaan — is a limited liability corporation, so the new owners were not immediately identified, the New Canaan News reported.
The Real Estalker blog identified the proud new owners as former Coach head Reed Krakoff and his interior-decorator wife, Delphine, who recently sold their Upper East Side town house for $51 million.
But a source close to the Krakoffs told The Post that’s “highly unlikely,’’ because, in short, they don’t need another house.
That’s because they own trophy homes in East Hampton and Paris and are in the market for another pad in Manhattan.
The Connecticut showplace, built in 1937, is somewhat of a fixer-upper. The grounds are described as a bit seedy and the house needs renovation.
It’s been vacant since Clark, the daughter of a copper magnate and US senator, bought it in 1951.
The onetime socialite, who died in 2011 at age 98, also had homes in Santa Barbara, Calif., and Manhattan, but lived her last 20 years as a hermit in Beth Israel Hospital.
Clark, a compulsive doll collector who was worth more than $300 million, left conflicting wills. Years of litigation ended in settlements with 19 of her distant relatives, who were left fortunes in one will and zilch in another.
Clark gave $31 million in gifts to one nurse, who agreed to return $5 million.
The will’s executors want another nurse to return the $1 million in gifts she received.
Clark’s lawyer and her accountant lost about $1 million in gifts in return for a promise they wouldn’t be sued for more.
The last unresolved case involves both Beth Israel and Clark’s doctor. The executors accused them of keeping her “sequestered from the world’’ so they could grab millions.
In a recent surprise development, JPMorgan Chase reported that it had discovered a “not . . . insignificant’’ amount of money Clark had deposited in one of its branches.
The money is expected to go to an arts foundation that occupies a home she owned in Santa Barbara — in which her $1.7-million doll collection is housed.
Additional reporting by Julia Marsh