heiress
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Hotel heiress Paris Hilton outside the US Capitol on 17 December 2024.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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
The Kennedy heiress has already secured an offer for the quaint home near the Kennedy family’s famed Hyannis Port compound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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
The Bordonis were Swiss, but Mrs. Bordoni was the daughter and heiress of a Spanish family that had settled in the Salinas Valley in very early times.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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
In “Born Rich,” Ms. Trump seemed self-aware in ways that the other heirs and heiresses in the film did not.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2020
She becomes one of the wealthiest women in the world, after such heiresses as the women who own giant stakes in L’Oreal and Walmart.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2019
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
