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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 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.
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?
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 ...
In 1980 he married Amanda (née Mortimer) Burden, the daughter of Barbara (née Cushing) Mortimer (who later married CBS chairman, William S. Paley). They divorced 16 months later. [2] In 1982 he married Courtney Sale, daughter of a prosperous Bryan, Texas, family.
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 ...
Burden is the daughter of socialite Babe Paley and her first husband, Stanley G. Mortimer Jr. (1913–1999), an heir to the Standard Oil fortune. [2] She is a descendant of the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay, and a granddaughter of Dr. Harvey Cushing, the "Father of American Neurosurgery" and Pulitzer Prize winning author.