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After her divorce from Mortimer, Barbara received a settlement from a trust fund. In 1946, she met William "Pasha" Paley, who was estranged from his wife Dorothy Hart Hearst (1908–1998), the former wife of John Randolph Hearst. William Paley was wealthy and interested in the arts, and sought acceptance in New York's café society. Barbara's ...
Born Barbara Cushing in 1915, Paley grew up outside Boston, the daughter of a wealthy and socially connected surgeon who was also a Pulitzer Prize winner. She graduated from Winsor School and made ...
Babe Paley, potrayed by Naomi Watts in Ryan Murphy's Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, was Capote's favorite. So, why did the writer betray the queen of midcentury New York High Society?
Babe Paley died in 1974, aged 63, from lung cancer. She will long be remembered for her elegant sense of style. In 1941, she was ranked by Time magazine as the second-best-dressed woman in the world.
After their divorce, Babe married William S. Paley, the longtime head of CBS. In 1947, [ 22 ] Mortimer remarried to Kathleen Lanier Harriman (1917–2011), [ 23 ] the daughter of W. Averell Harriman ( U.S. Ambassador to Russia and the U.K., a governor of New York and a U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman ) and a ...
Barbara "Babe" Paley was the youngest child of neurosurgeon surgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing and socialite Katharine Crowell Cushing. Her mother, according to Leamer's book, wished for one thing for her ...
All three Cushing sisters married into wealth and prominence: Her older sister, Mary "Minnie", married Vincent Astor, [5] the heir of a $200 million fortune, in 1940, and her younger sister Barbara "Babe" was married to Standard Oil heir Stanley Mortimer Jr., and later to CBS founder William S. Paley. Both of her sisters died of cancer within ...
The two married on an estate in Long Island owned by Keith’s friends, Bill and Barbara Paley. It was during this marriage that Capote would befriend Keith. However, in 1960, Hayward divorced ...