Barbara Woolworth Hutton Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American debutante/socialite, heiress and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl," first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930, amid the Great Depression, and later due to a notoriously troubled private life.Heiress to the retail tycoon Frank Winfield Woolworth, Hutton was one of the wealthiest women in the world. She endured a childhood marked by the early loss of her mother at age 5 and the neglect of her father setting the stage for a life of difficulty forming relationships. Seven times married, all of which ended in divorce and none of which lasted more than three years, she acquired grand foreign titles but was maliciously treated and often exploited by several of her husbands. While publicly she was much envied for her possessions, her beauty and her apparent life of leisure, privately she remained deeply insecure, often taking refuge in drink, drugs, and playboys.Hutton bore one child, Lance Reventlow, with her second husband, but was an indifferent and insecure parent and the subsequent divorce ended in a bitter custody battle. She later developed anorexia which inhibited further childbirth. Her son died in a plane crash in 1972 at the age of 36 leaving her devastated. She lived another seven years after the death of her son, dying of a heart attack at age 66. At her death, the formerly wealthy Hutton was on the verge of bankruptcy as a result of exploitation, as well as her compulsive generosity and spendthrift ways.
Her 5th husband, notorious libertine Porfirio Rubirosa, had been married to Hutton's "arch-rival", American Tobacco Company heiress Doris Duke. Duke gave Rubirosa sports cars, polo ponies, a plantation in his native Dominican Republic, a converted B-25 bomber, a 17th-century home in Paris, and $25,000 a year for life in their divorce (she gave his then-wife, Danielle Darrieux, $1 million to agree to divorce him). Duke never remarried. Hutton gave Rubirosa $3.5 million, and another converted B-25 bomber when they divorced. Of all her husbands, only Cary Grant left Hutton as rich as he found her.
After her mother committed suicide in 1917, she became 1/3 heir to her grandfather, Frank Woolworth's estate. Her father took over management over her estate, and by the time she came of age, was worth $150 million.
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Her first husband, Prince Alexis Mdivani, a notorious fortune hunter, was thought to have been paid $2 million by Hutton to marry her and another $1.5 million to divorce her 3 years later.
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She gave Danish Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow $1.5 million for his hand in marriage, immediately after her divorce from Prince Alexis Mdivani.
One of the richest, most admired women in the world at her peak, she died nearly broke, with less than $3,500 in the bank, and alone.
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One child: Lance Reventlow, born February 24 1936. Lance later married actress Jill St. John. He was killed in an airplane crash in 1972. His former stepfather, Cary Grant, who had been very close to Lance, was devastated, but helped his mother to arrange Lance's funeral and also attended.
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