Ayatollah Sistani, 78 and reclusive, held a rare meeting in August with a group of Iraqi reporters at his home in Najaf to dispel rumors that he was seriously ill.
For the last 20 years of her life, Huguette Clark, a wealthy and reclusive copper heiress, lived in a Manhattan hospital room, shades drawn, door closed.
Shmuel becomes the companion to Gershom Wald, an ancient and reclusive character who lives in a half-buried house on the western fringe of Jerusalem.
Increasingly eccentric and reclusive, Piero died in 1522, at the age of sixty, probably of plague.
Sedley came back angry and crazy, Russ Fleshman returned as a windbag, Pete Kitchen was reclusive and lived in a horse trailer at the back of the old Kitchen ranch.
In the subsequent decades, despite owning several magnificent homes, she became increasingly reclusive and stayed in a single candlelit room in her Fifth Avenue apartment.
Bicycles are an expensive but popular mode of transport for many in an impoverished and reclusive country where private car ownership, although on the rise, is still rare.
During the 1950s, when actress Greta Garbo walked away from her very lucrative movie career and become nearly reclusive in New York City, she established "I want to be alone," and made sure to stick with it.
She has never before expressed regrets about leaving and has spent the past decade living a reclusive life in a 17th-century mansion in Kent.
Shy and reclusive, Mr. Leroy, now 25, appeared in public often disguised beneath a wig and sunglasses.
