Months before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying ...

For actor Eric Braeden, best known as Victor Newman on the television soap opera The Young and the Restless, his past ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

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 ...

The soap icon also reveals the moment he considered retiring not long ago, how he feels celebrating 45 years as Victor Newman ...

The previous record was set in April when another gold pocket watch, recovered from the body of the richest man on the ship, John Jacob Astor, sold for £1.175 million at the same auction house.