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American philanthropist and socialite

Barbara Hutton
Hutton in 1931
Born	Barbara Woolworth Hutton (1912-11-14)November xiv, 1912 New York City, U.S.
Died	May 11, 1979(1979-05-xi) (anile 66) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation	Philanthropist, heiress
Years agile	1933–1979
Spouse(s)	Alexis Mdivani ​ ​ (m. 1933; div. 1935)​ Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow ​ ​ (m. 1935; div. 1938)​ Cary Grant ​ ​ (yard. 1942; div. 1945)​ Prince Igor Troubetzkoy ​ ​ (m. 1947; div. 1951)​ Porfirio Rubirosa ​ ​ (m. 1953; div. 1954)​ Baron Gottfried von Cramm ​ ​ (m. 1955; div. 1959)​ Prince Pierre Doan ​ ​ (m. 1964; div. 1966)​
Children	Lance Reventlow
Relatives	Frank Winfield Woolworth (maternal grandfather) Edward Francis Hutton (paternal uncle) Dina Merrill (paternal get-go cousin)

Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American debutante, socialite, heiress, and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Daughter": first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante brawl in 1930 amid the Great Depression, and afterwards due to a notoriously troubled private life.^[1]

Heiress to 1-third of the manor of the retail tycoon Frank Winfield Woolworth, Barbara Hutton was one of the wealthiest women in the world. She endured a childhood marked past the neglect of her male parent and the early loss of her female parent at age four who died from suffocation due to mastoiditis.^[2] Rumors have persisted that she committed suicide.^[3] This prepare the stage for a life of difficulty forming relationships. Married and divorced seven times, she caused chiliad foreign titles but was maliciously treated and ofttimes exploited by several of her husbands. Publicly she was much envied for her possessions, her dazzler and her apparent life of leisure; privately she remained deeply insecure, ofttimes taking refuge in drink, drugs, and playboys.

Hutton had one kid, Lance Reventlow, with her 2nd husband, but was an inconsistent and insecure parent and the subsequent divorce ended in a bitter custody battle. She later developed anorexia nervosa and perhaps thereby prevented further childbirth. Her son died in a plane crash in 1972 at the age of 36, leaving her devastated. She died on May 11, 1979, at age 66. At her death, the formerly wealthy Hutton was on the verge of bankruptcy as a outcome of both lavish spending and exploitation by those entrusted to manage her estate.

Early life [edit]

Born in New York City, Barbara Hutton was the only child of Edna Woolworth (1883–1917), a granddaughter of Frank Due west. Woolworth, the founder of the successful Woolworth 5-and-dime stores. Barbara'southward father was Franklyn Laws Hutton (1877–1940), a wealthy co-founder of Due east. F. Hutton & Company (owned by Franklyn's brother Edward Francis Hutton), a respected New York investment banking and stock brokerage firm.^[iv] She was a niece by marriage of cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Mail, who was for a time (1920–1935) married to E.F. Hutton; thus their girl, actress-heiress Dina Merrill (born Nedenia Hutton), was a first cousin to Barbara Hutton. Dina Merrill related on A&Eastward's Biography of the Woolworths, that for a fourth dimension Barbara lived with them following the death of her mother and abandonment by her begetter.^[5]

Edna Hutton reportedly died on May two, 1917, historic period 33, from suffocation due to mastoiditis,^[6] but rumor persists that she committed suicide past poison in despair over her husband's philandering,^[seven] particularly as the coroner decided that no dissection was necessary.^[viii] Four-year-quondam Barbara discovered her mother's trunk.^[9] Afterwards her mother's decease, she lived with various relatives, and was raised by a governess. Hutton attended Miss Hewitt's Classes, now The Hewitt Schoolhouse in New York's Lenox Colina neighborhood and Miss Porter's School for Girls in Farmington, Connecticut. She became an introverted kid who had limited interaction with other children of her own age. Her closest friend and but confidante was her cousin Jimmy Donahue, the son of her mother's sis.^[10] Jimmy Donahue inherited a portion of the Woolworth manor with Barbara and also grew up to have notorious, and public, drug, alcohol and relationship problems.

In 1924, Barbara Hutton'southward grandmother Jennie (Creighton) Woolworth died and bequeathed to her $26.1 million. Some other $2.1 meg in stock from Edna'south inheritance was placed in a carve up trust - both trusts were administered by Franklyn Hutton. By the time of her 21st birthday in 1933, her male parent had increased her inheritance to $42 million (equivalent to $839,676,093 in 2020), not including the boosted $8 million from her female parent'due south estate, making her ane of the wealthiest women in the world.^[11]

In accord with New York'due south loftier lodge traditions, Barbara Hutton was given a lavish débutante ball in 1930 on her 18th birthday, where guests from the Astor and Rockefeller families, among other elites, were entertained by stars such as Rudy Vallee and French lover Maurice Chevalier.^[12] The ball cost $threescore,000, a veritable fortune in the days of the Depression. Public criticism was then severe that she was sent on a tour of Europe to escape the onslaught of the press.^[13]

She lived in the family home at 4 Due east 80th Street^[fourteen] on the Upper East Side.

Marriages [edit]

Popular poet Ogden Nash and so took note of Hutton's public individual life in the post-obit lite verse:

Said Aimee McPherson to Barbara Hutton,

"How practice you become a wedlock to button?"
"You'll have to ask some other person."

Said Barbara Hutton to Aimee McPherson

Barbara Hutton married:

1. 1933: Alexis Mdivani, a cocky-styled Georgian prince, divorced 1935
2. 1935: Count Kurt Heinrich Eberhard Erdmann Georg von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, divorced 1938
3. 1942: Cary Grant, divorced 1945
4. 1947: Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, divorced 1951
5. 1953: Porfirio Rubirosa, divorced 1954
6. 1955: Baron Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt von Cramm, divorced 1959
7. 1964: Pierre Raymond Doan, divorced 1966

Alexis Mdivani [edit]

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Her first husband, Alexis Mdivani, used her great wealth to his advantage. Every bit a social climber, he and his siblings were part of the "Marrying Mdivanis" from Georgia who claimed to be "princes" subsequently they fled Tbilisi in 1921 due to the Soviet invasion of Georgia.^[xv] Alexis was already married to Louise Van Alen, a friend Barbara met at Bailey's Beach in Rhode Isle and a member of the Astor family, when he met Barbara in Biarritz, France. Their meeting was engineered by Alexis' manipulative sister Roussie who was always propelling her family into wealthy marriages even if a divorce was required. Roussie and Alexis devised a programme that would enable Alexis to divorce Louise, seduce Barbara, and force her into marriage all at once when Alexis, Louise, Barbara, Roussie, and others were visiting San Sebastian, Spain. Roussie timed Louise and other witnesses to a visit a invitee cottage while Alexis seduced Barbara. The grouping caught the couple, prompting Barbara to flee to Paris to avoid facing the scandal,^[16] but Roussie threatened Barbara with negative publicity if she did not marry her brother.^[17] Alexis and Barbara were married on June 22, 1933, in the Russian Orthodox Church in Paris, French republic. Barbara's father provided a $one million dowry. Afterward spending millions of Barbara's inheritance on a abode, polo ponies, clothes and men's jewelry, Alexis and Barbara divorced in March 1935.

Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow [edit]

Count Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow, with whom she had her only child, a son named Lance, was her second husband.^[18] Reventlow dominated her through verbal and physical abuse, which escalated to a roughshod beating that left her hospitalized and put him in jail. He also persuaded her to give up her American citizenship, and to have his native Danish citizenship for tax purposes, which she did in December 1937 in a New York federal court. At this point she lapsed into drug abuse. Hutton then developed anorexia, which would plague her for the residuum of her life and would leave her unable to have farther children. Lance Reventlow, the son, became a race car commuter and builder of his ain well-respected sports machine, the Scarab, in the golden historic period of American sports car racing.

Hutton'due south divorce from Reventlow gave her custody of their son afterward a bitter courtroom dispute. As her father had washed, she left the raising of her child to a governess and private boarding schools.

In 1938, Hutton had a brief affair with Howard Hughes in London at the Savoy Hotel, where Hughes spent several afternoons in Hutton's round satin bed. Hughes, at the time, was engaged to Katharine Hepburn and had come up to London to run across with government officials and arrange permission to overfly Europe as part of a programme to circumnavigate the world past air. Hutton subsequently recalled that "he saw I had difficulty reaching orgasm and tried badly to make me do so the first time . . . thereafter pleasing himself and saying that I would not have one anyway. If I touched myself, he angrily brushed my paw abroad. He could not take it when a adult female lost herself in pleasure considering he felt he must absolutely be in control of a situation."^[19]

Hughes had met Hepburn on the set up of ane of Cary Grant'southward movies, while visiting with Grant. Howard Hughes and Cary Grant were close, long-time friends.^[19]

Cary Grant [edit]

As World State of war Ii threatened in 1939, Hutton moved to California. She was active during the war, giving money to assist the Free French Forces and altruistic her yacht to the Royal Navy. Using her loftier-profile image to sell war bonds, she received positive publicity afterward existence derided by the press as a result of her union scandals. In Hollywood, she met Cary Grant, one of the biggest movie stars of the 24-hour interval, and afterwards married him on July 8, 1942. The printing dubbed the married couple "Greenbacks and Cary", though Grant did non need her money nor did he need to benefit from her name, and he appeared to genuinely intendance for Hutton. Nevertheless, this marriage too failed. Grant did not seek or receive any money from Hutton in their divorce settlement.^[20]

Igor Troubetzkoy [edit]

Hutton left California and moved to Paris, France, before acquiring a palace in Tangier. Hutton then began dating Igor Troubetzkoy, an expatriate Russian prince of very limited means merely world renown. In the leap of 1948 in Zurich, Switzerland, she married him. That year, he was the driver of the first Ferrari to always compete in One thousand Prix motor racing when he raced in the Monaco Grand Prix, and later won the Targa Florio. He ultimately filed for divorce. Hutton's subsequent attempted suicide made headlines around the world. Labeled by the press equally the "Poor Petty Rich Girl", her life fabricated dandy copy and the media exploited her for consumption by a fascinated public.^[21]

Porfirio Rubirosa [edit]

Her next matrimony, lasting 53 days (December 30, 1953 – February 20, 1954), was to Dominican diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa, a notorious international playboy who meanwhile continued his affair with actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.^{[22] [23]} She was granted Dominican citizenship in 1953.^[24]

In a scathing review of the marriage ceremony in the Milwaukee Sentinel, Phyllis Battelle coined the oftentimes-quoted phrase: "The bride, for her fifth wedding, wore blackness and carried a scotch-and-soda."^[25]

Hutton then spent fourth dimension with Americans James Douglas and Philip Van Rensselaer. Her lavish spending continued; already the owner of several mansions around the world, in 1959 she congenital a luxurious Japanese-style palace on a xxx-acre (120,000 chiliad^two) estate in Cuernavaca, Mexico.^[26]

Gottfried von Cramm [edit]

Her adjacent hubby was an quondam friend, German language lawn tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm. This marriage also ended in divorce. He died in an automobile crash near Cairo, Egypt, in 1976.^[27]

Raymond Doan [edit]

In Tangier, Hutton met her seventh husband, Prince Pierre Raymond Doan Vinh na Champassak. This matrimony, too, was brusk-lived.^[28] Raymond Doan was an adopted member of the former royal family of the Kingdom of Champasak.^{[ citation needed ]}

Other relationships [edit]

Hutton lived with Frederick McEvoy, purchasing a chalet at a ski resort in Franconia, New Hampshire, afterward her matrimony to histrion Cary Grant. The couple never married and remained friends until McEvoy's death in 1951.^{[29] [30]} Hutton frequently appeared intoxicated in public and was notorious throughout her life for lavish spending.^[31] She was known to make gifts to total strangers.^{[32] [33] [ page needed ]}

Art and jewelry [edit]

Over the years, apart from an important inheritance which included Old Master paintings and important sculptures,^[34] she also personally acquired a magnificent collection of her ain which included the spectrum of arts, porcelain,^[34] valuable jewelry, including elaborate historic pieces that had one time belonged to Marie Antoinette and Empress Eugénie of France, and important pieces by Fabergé and Cartier.^{[35] [36] [37]} Amid her pieces of jewelry was the twoscore-carat (viii.0 g) Pasha Diamond, which she purchased as an unusual octagonal brilliant-cut but had recut into a round brilliant, bringing it downwards to 36 carats (vii.2 g).^[38]

Concluding years and death [edit]

The death of her just son Lance Reventlow in an air crash in 1972 sent Hutton into a state of despair. By this time, her fortune had diminished, due to her farthermost generosity, including donating Winfield Firm to the United States regime equally a residence for its Uk ambassador.^[39] Alleged questionable deals past her longtime lawyer, Graham Mattison, also ate away at her fortune. Eventually she began liquidating assets in order to raise funds to live, still continued to spend money on strangers willing to pay a picayune attention to her. She spent her final years in Los Angeles, living at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where she died from a heart assail in May 1979, aged 66. One biographer wrote that, at her death, $3,500 was all that remained of her fortune, but some who actually knew her said that was non the case. She was interred in the Woolworth family mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.

Run into besides [edit]

• Woolworths
• Lady Hutton
• Listing of people from Morelos, Mexico

Notes [edit]

1. ^ "Barbara Hutton: The 'Poor Little Rich Girl' Who Had Everything Except Happiness". Idea Catalog. August 9, 2019. Retrieved June nine, 2020.
2. ^ "Mrs. Hutton Found Dead. Daughter of F. W. Woolworth Suffocated in Her Room at the Plaza". The New York Times. May 3, 1917. Retrieved Dec three, 2011. Mrs. Franklyn Laws Hutton, who was Edna Woolworth, girl of F. W. Woolworth, was found dead in her flat at the hotel Plaza. ...
3. ^ Plunkett-Powell, Karen; Remembering Woolworth'south: A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous V-and-Dime, MacMillan, p. 131.
4. ^ stewart. "Forgotten facts about the slap-up brokerage titans - InvestmentNews". investmentnews.com. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
5. ^ Barbara Hutton; a candid biography - Page 17
6. ^ "Mrs. Hutton Institute Dead. Daughter of F.W. Woolworth Suffocated in Her Room at the Plaza". The New York Times. May 3, 1917. Retrieved December 3, 2011. Mrs. Franklyn Laws Hutton, who was Edna Woolworth, girl of F. W. Woolworth, was found expressionless in her apartment at the hotel Plaza on May 2, 1917. ...
7. ^ Plunkett-Powell, Karen; Remembering Woolworth's: A Nostalgic History of the World's Well-nigh Famous Five-and-Dime, MacMillan, p. 131.
8. ^ Pitrone, Jean Maddern; F.W. Woolworth and the American Five and Dime: A Social History, McFarland, p.59
9. ^ Gressor, Megan & Melt, Kerry (2005). An Affair to Call back: The Greatest Love Stories of All Time, p. 260. Fair Winds Press.
10. ^ "Jane Bowles, Libby Holman Reynolds and Barbara Hutton". The Authorized Paul Bowles Web Site. world wide web.paulbowles.org.
11. ^ Poor Little Rich Daughter: The Barbara Hutton Story
12. ^ "Barbara Hutton, la vie scandaleuse d'une héritière croqueuse de diamants… et de maris". July 11, 2021.
13. ^ New York Social Diary, 1933
14. ^ Tuman, Diane (March 20, 2011). "New York'southward Woolworth Mansion Listed for $xc Million". Zillow Porchlight. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
15. ^ Heyman, David C. (1983). Poor Little Rich Daughter: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton. New York, NY: Random Business firm. pp. 34–38.
16. ^ Heyman, David C. (1983). Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton. New York, NY: Random House. p. 63.
17. ^ Moats, Alice-Leone (1977). The 1000000 Dollar Studs. New York, NY: Delacorte Press. pp. 105–120.
18. ^ This fabulous century - Folio 156
19. ^ ^{a b} "Howard Hughes - The Untold Story" by Peter Brown and Pat Broeske
20. ^ Cary Grant: A Course Autonomously, Graham McCann, Pg. 159
21. ^ Barbara Hutton; a aboveboard biography - Page 160
22. ^ "Barbara Hutton biography at divasthesite.com". Archived from the original on May 15, 2011.
23. ^ The very rich: a history of wealth - Page 135
24. ^ "Barbara Hutton, Playboy Volition Wed Wednesday". Ellensburg Daily Tape. December 30, 1953. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
25. ^ Battelle, Phyllis (December 31, 2014). "Mazed Helpmate Wears Black, Carries Soda and Scotch at Spanish Anniversary". The Milwaukee Sentinel . Retrieved August 27, 2014.
26. ^ Frommer's Portable Acapulco, Ixtapa & Zihuatanejo - Page 156
27. ^ Barbara Hutton; a candid biography - Page 214
28. ^ F.W. Woolworth and the American five and dime: a social history
29. ^ "Woolworth Heiress May Ally Austn". The Courier-Postal service. Brisbane. April thirteen, 1946. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
30. ^ Freddie McEvoy Biography and Olympic Results. Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Accessed October 26, 2011.
31. ^ Barry Robe, Lucy (1986). Co-starring famous women and alcohol. CompCare Publications. p. 26. ISBN9780896381001.
32. ^ Martel, Judy (2006). The dilemmas of family wealth: insights on succession, cohesion, and legacy. p. 150. ISBN9781576601907.
33. ^ Van Rensselaer, Philip (1979). Million dollar babe: an intimate portrait of Barbara Hutton. The Academy of Michigan. ISBN9780399123665.
34. ^ ^{a b} F.Westward. Woolworth and the American 5 and dime: a social history - Page 203
35. ^ Cartier, by Hans Nadelhoffer, pg 124
36. ^ Barbara Hutton; a candid biography - Page 166
37. ^ F.W. Woolworth and the American five and dime: a social history - Folio 166
38. ^ Cartier By Hans Nadelhoffer Pg 325
39. ^ "Administrator'due south Residence: Winfield House". Diplomatic mission of The United States in London, U.K. Archived from the original on Baronial 25, 2014. Retrieved August 27, 2014.

Further reading [edit]

Several books have been written virtually Barbara Hutton, the best known of which are:

• Barbara Hutton: A Candid Biography, by Dean Jennings (F. Fell, 1968, 301pp.)
• Million Dollar Baby: An Intimate Portrait of Barbara Hutton, by Philip Van Rensselaer (Putnam, 1979, 285pp.)
• Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton, by C. David Heymann (50. Stuart, 1984, 390pp.)
• In Search of a Prince: My Life with Barbara Hutton, past Mona Eldridge (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988, 210pp.)

A bibliography:

In 1987, a television motion picture titled Poor Little Rich Daughter: The Barbara Hutton Story starred Farrah Fawcett in the function of Barbara Hutton.

External links [edit]

• Biography of Barbara Hutton past Kenneth Lisenbee
• Barbara Hutton at IMDb
• Barbara Hutton at Find a Grave

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Hutton

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