heiress

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The roughly 19,000-square-foot house, designed for an oil-and-banking heiress and her husband, is the most expensive for sale in Fort Worth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

It was eventually sold for $85 million in 2011 to Formula 1 heiress Petra Ecclestone.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026

That same year, he married Jane Lauder, an executive at Estée Lauder and an heiress to one of America’s wealthiest families.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The project was commissioned as part of the La Plaza shopping complex by Julia Carnell, the heiress to a national cash register empire based in Dayton, Ohio.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

If she was not the heiress now, she would be soon, what with her clues, Angela's clues, Turtle's clues, Denton's clues, and the clues of Mr. Hoo's obedient son.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin