Barbara Hutton

One child: Lance Reventlow , born February 24 1936. Lance later married actress Jill St. John. He was killed in an airplane crash in 1972. His former stepfather, Cary Grant , who had been very close to Lance, was devastated, but helped his mother to arrange Lances funeral and also attended.

One of the richest, most admired women in the world at her peak, she died nearly broke, with less than $3,500 in the bank, and alone.

Cousin of Dina Merrill.

She gave Danish Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow $1.5 million for his hand in marriage, immediately after her divorce from Prince Alexis Mdivani.

Her first husband, Prince Alexis Mdivani, a notorious fortune hunter, was thought to have been paid $2 million by Hutton to marry her and another $1.5 million to divorce her 3 years later.

After her mother committed suicide in 1917, she became 1/3 heir to her grandfather, Frank Woolworths estate. Her father took over management over her estate, and by the time she came of age, was worth $150 million.

Mother-in-law of Cheryl Holdridge.

Cousin of Robert Hutton.

Her 5th husband, notorious libertine Porfirio Rubirosa , had been married to Huttons "arch-rival", American Tobacco Company heiress Doris Duke. Duke gave Rubirosa sports cars, polo ponies, a plantation in his native Dominican Republic, a converted B-25 bomber, a 17th-century home in Paris, and $25,000 a year for life in their divorce (she gave his then-wife, Danielle Darrieux , $1 million to agree to divorce him). Duke never remarried. Hutton gave Rubirosa $3.5 million, and another converted B-25 bomber when they divorced. Of all her husbands, only Cary Grant left Hutton as rich as he found her.