Today, the amount is $21 billion. But it was John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the renowned Astor family, who was best known. There are 87 million dollars in his net worth. In our day, Astor's fortune ...
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The Gilded Age's Most Ruthless Socialite
Caroline Astor had an uncomfortably close relationship with her son—which makes the brutal betrayal he dealt her after she ...
John Jacob Astor IV was one of the wealthiest people in the world when he perished in the Titanic sinking. His life was marked by amazing innovations and wealth, but scandal as well. Astor's wife ...
of the famed New York Astor family. Mr Astor was 47 when he went down with the ship in 1912, after seeing his new wife Madeleine on to a lifeboat. The timepiece bears an inscription reading ...