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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.
Upon hearing news of the impending wedding, Alexis married his best friend Jimmy Van Alen's sister Louise Astor Van Alen (a member of the Astor and Vanderbilt families).They divorced a year later after she allegedly caught Alexis and her close friend, Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, in a romantic encounter at Roussy's estate in Costa Brava ...
Princess Alexis Mdivani (née Barbara Woolworth Hutton) on 22 June 1933, then Countess Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow on 14 May 1935, then Princess Igor Troubetzkoy (previously Grant) on 1 April 1947, then Baroness Gottfried von Cramm (previously Rubirosa) in November 1955 [501] [Note 8]
Hutton, a native of New York City, moved to Denmark in 1935 upon her marriage to Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, and two years later renounced U.S. citizenship to take the Danish citizenship of her husband. [159] [160] Hutton lived in the U.S. again during her marriage to actor Cary Grant, which ended in 1945. [161]
In the show, actress Naomi Watts is stepping into the well-heeled shoes of the high-society it girl Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley (i.e., queen bee in the Swans cohort).
The Real Housewives of Miami‘s Alexia Nepola spoke out about husband Todd Nepola filing for divorce after nearly three years of marriage. “I am shocked and heartbroken that Todd has chosen to ...
A Missouri woman who admitted to killing her husband because she couldn’t afford to divorce him has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. On Monday, Jan. 27, Melanie Biggins, 42, pleaded guilty ...
Holdridge's first marriage, on November 8, 1964, was to sportsman and playboy Lance Reventlow, [14] only child of Barbara Hutton, heir to the Woolworth fortune. Holdridge decided to retire from acting after becoming engaged to Reventlow and would later explain “because that’s what you did then.