write a brief about Sarah Winchester with a pic of her
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Sarah Lockwood Winchester was an American heiress who amassed great wealth after the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester. Her inheritance to his estate included USD$20 million (equivalent to $496,344,828 in 2016) as well as a 50% holding in the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, which made her one of the wealthiest women in the world at the time.She is best known for using her vast fortune to continue construction on the Winchester mansion in San Jose, California, for 38 consecutive years.Popular legends, which began during her lifetime, held that she was convinced she was cursed, and the only way to alleviate it was to add on to her California home. Since her death, the sprawlingWinchester Mystery House has become a popular tourist attraction, known for its one staircase leading nowhere and many winding corridors.