heiress

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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

Thomas Pynchon hasn’t lost a step with his 1930s tale about the misadventures of a Milwaukee cheese heiress and the detective that travels to proto-fascist Budapest to find her.

From Los Angeles Times • 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

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