heiress
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Hotel heiress Paris Hilton outside the US Capitol on 17 December 2024.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
He painted this one of the heiress to Hunt Wesson Foods and her husband, a zealous art fan, shortly after creating another well-known double portrait of Isherwood and Bachardy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
It has held a position in the Garnier and Maybelline owner since 1974, when it bought in at the request of L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt to help stop the French government from nationalizing the company.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
A Harvard-educated attorney and Vanderbilt heiress, Burden, 56, writes candidly about how she ceded control of her finances to her ex during their 20-year marriage, trusting him to act in her best interests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
And Camilla grew richer and richer: an American heiress.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
A number of the Mars heiresses have held top roles at the candy and pet-food company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
Who would listen to wealthy heirs and heiresses?
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
This is not so much an encyclopedia of heiresses as a starter pack.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Among the blindingly White milieu of social-climbing “wives of,” acid-tongued grand dames, bored heiresses, buzzing staff and one wide-eyed country cousin is Peggy Scott, an ambitious young Black woman who shines instead of shrinks.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2022
I met real estate developers, agents, heiresses, fund managers, lawyers, clothing designers, professional basketball players, photographers, movie producers, and television correspondents.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
