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The Shocking Story Of John Jacob Astor IV, The Multimillionaire Who Went Down With The Titanic
Months before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying ...
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Inside the Astor family, one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age dynasties whose descendants are friends with British royals
Johann Jacob Astor worked as a butcher in Walldorf, southeastern Germany, Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard wrote in "The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor." His ancestors are said to have ...
'Young and the Restless' Star Eric Braeden on His Life and Career
For actor Eric Braeden, best known as Victor Newman on the television soap opera The Young and the Restless, his past ...
11 Facts About the Astor Family
The wealth of the Astor family originated in fur trading, guided by the intelligent but ruthless business tactics of their ...
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Madeleine Force Astor rose in Palm Beach, in love and heartbreak after Titanic disaster
Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her in Lifeboat 4, but his apogeal social status and family fortune — born of the fur trade, then turbocharged by New York real ...
Gold watch of richest Titanic passenger sells for $1.46 million
An American buyer won the bidding war for John Jacob Astor IV's 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch, shattering the auctioneer ...
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Gold pocketwatch belonging to Titanic's richest passenger sells for £1,175,000
A gold pocket watch which was recovered from the body of the Titanic’s richest passenger has sold for a record-breaking sum at auction. John Jacob Astor died when the Titanic sank in 1912, after ...
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Gold pocket watch recovered from Titanic’s wealthiest passenger sells for nearly $1.5M
The timepiece belonged to John Jacob Astor IV, a New York business magnate and real estate developer, and was expected to sell for about $189,000 at auction, according to auction house Henry ...