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 1912 - 1979 (66 år)
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Barbara Woolworth - Hutton |
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14 nov. 1912 |
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Kvinde |
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11 maj 1979 |
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Barbara Hutton, America's most famous heiress - a 'poor little rich girl' doomed to failure and tragedy. PhilipVan Rensselaer dramatically re-creates the events of her life in a book that captures theextravagance and glamour of the international jet set. Barbara Hutton's extravagance was fabled.
Her parties, clothes, jewelry and furs - all flaunted during the Depression years - made her the envy of women around the world. Her romances with royalty and celebrities were frequent, headline-making, and more often than not, disastrous.
Though she was married to a handsome Russian prince, a dazzling Danish count, and to the most sought-after actor in the world - Cary Grant - Barbara Hutton was a vulnerable woman, haunted by loneliness. Descended from robber barons, Barbara Hutton's grandfather Frank Woolworth left her an astonishing legacy of twenty-five million dollars and a Fifth Avenue palace.
She casually acquired a stately English mansion, into which she poured a fortune for renovations, a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, a castle in Tangier, and a Japanese-style home in Mexico. She surrounded herself with liveried servants and a host of hangers-on, who benefited from her generosity. Despite her opulent surroundings, Barbara's life was not the stuff of fairy tales. Her mother committed suicide and her businessman father was cold and indifferent.
At the age of sixteen, she got her first glimpse of European high life in Biarritz, where she met Elsa Maxwell, and where her money attracted the first in a series of fortune hunters, who played uponher vulnerability and bled her white, while invariably falling in love with her. Barbara Hutton's story gives the reader a breathtaking picture of a life that was glamorous on the surface but essentially tragic.
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I15493 |
Reventlow |
| Sidst ændret |
25 jan. 2015 |
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