Barbara Hutton - Biography - IMDb

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Her maternal grandfather, Frank W. Woolworth, founded the department store chain of the same name in New York at the turn of the century, with which he soon made a considerable fortune all over the world. Barbara Hutton therefore grew up in sheltered and wealthy circumstances. Her father died when she was a child; In May 1917, as a four-year-old, she found the body of her mother, Edna (née Woolworth), who had committed suicide in her suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York. As the sole heir, she became a millionaire several times over when her parents died at the age of seven. She was considered the richest woman in the world. Hutton made several trips around the world and met the Georgian prince Alexis Mdivani, whom she married in Paris in 1933. The relationship did not have a happy outcome. They were separated again after their honeymoon and divorced in 1935.

Hutton achieved the same failure with her subsequent marriages. In 1935 she married Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, with whom she lived in London and had their only child. Son Lance was born in 1936 and later had a career in automobile racing. When Hutton separated from her second husband in 1938, the son remained with the Count. This marriage ended in divorce in 1941. The wealthy woman's third marriage was to actor Cary Grant in 1942, with whom she remained married until 1945. Because she felt neglected by Grant, who was only concentrating on his film career, she caused the separation. The fourth marriage to Igor Trubetzkoj, a French prince of Russian descent, lasted from 1948 to 1951. This was followed by Hutton's fifth marriage in 1953: the relationship with the Dominican diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa, whom she had met in Paris, only lasted a few months and was broken off in the spring of 1954.

In 1955, Hutton entered into her sixth marriage to a long-time friend, the German tennis player Gottfried Freiherr von Cramm. In the beginning, she actually seemed to have found the right partner in Cramm. However, this relationship did not develop as desired, so it was dissolved in 1961. After a brief affair with the musician Lloyd Franklin, Hutton married Prince Raymond Doan Vinh of Laos for his seventh marriage. This last marriage lasted from 1964 to 1969. After the last divorce, Hutton retreated to California, where she spent the last years of her life in complete isolation and suffered from severe anorexia. In 1972, her son had a fatal accident in a car race. She couldn't get over the loss. Marked by the illness, she lived in a hotel in Los Angeles.

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Prince Pierre Raymond Doan Vinh na Champassak(April 7, 1964 - 1966) (divorced)

Prince Igor Troubetzkoy(March 1, 1947 - October 31, 1951) (divorced)

Cary Grant(July 8, 1942 - August 30, 1945) (divorced)

Prince Alexis Mdivani(June 20, 1933 - May 13, 1935) (divorced)

Edna Woolworth

Franklyn Laws 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 Lance's funeral and also attended.

Her 5th husband, notorious libertine Porfirio Rubirosa, had been married to Hutton's "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.

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.

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

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