Huguette mansion sells for a song

A 22room Connecticut mansion that multimillionaire recluse Huguette Clark (inset) owned but never lived in has been sold for the bargainbasement 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 limitedliability corporation, so the new owners were not immediately identified, the New Canaan News reported.

The Real Estalker blog identified the buyers as designer and former Coach chief Reed Krakoff and his interiordecorator 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.

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 fixerupper. The grounds are described as a bit seedy and the house needs renovation.

It has been vacant since Clark, the daughter of a copper magnate and US senator, bought it in 1951.

The former socialite, who died in 2011 at 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 distant relatives.

Additional reporting Julia Marsh

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