Wen | wild away
How rich is Barbara Horton, the top lady of the last century?
She was the richest woman in the world in the early 20th century, and the money was inherited.
Her father was one of the founders of the Horton family at Bank of New York, and her mother was the daughter of a century-old large department store chain magnate.
As the only daughter of her parents, Barbara was born with a golden spoon, lived in a noble and elegant mansion, countless valuable jewels, and surrounded by high-society celebrities.
At the age of 21, her wealth translates to more than a billion today, not including the famous paintings and antiques handed down by the family, as well as the real estate invested around the world.
The 18-year-old coming-of-age ceremony is a grand rite of passage ball that cost $60,000, and the guests are mainly stars, as well as heads of various industries, even the Rockefeller family.
The first time she got married, her father asked someone to spend 55,000 yuan to design a string of old pit glass imperial green jade necklaces for his daughter, and gave a dowry of $1 million.
For example, at that time, the movie ticket was only 5 cents, and according to the purchasing power of 1 US dollar in that era, which was equivalent to more than ten times that of today, this wedding was quite luxurious.
Countless riches, endless luxuries, she was too rich, and once she was born, she ascended to a height that most people in the world could not reach in their lifetimes.
But the Creator is so fair, Barbara has spent her whole life, happy and happy days are very few, she is not short of money, but she lacks love, she is looking for it all her life, and in the end she is still lonely.
In 1912, as soon as Barbara was born, she had already laid the sad background of life by her parents.
The combination of parents belongs to the arranged marriage of strong and strong, and the conditions of two people are not bad, but two people are easy to marry, which has become the most vulnerable combination.
Parents do not love each other, no feelings, especially the father, with the excuse of "busy work", often do not go home, in fact, everyone in the family knows that he is looking for flowers and willows outside, and he is happy.
Barbara's mother belongs to the kind of cowardly woman, although the family status is not bad, but it does not have the courage to call the board, and the other party cannot accept the husband's affair.
In the end, he ended his life by hanging himself.
Barbara, who was only 4 years old at the time, woke up in the middle of the night to look for her in her mother's room, only to see her mother who was hanging in the room and had lost her breath.
The mother was gone forever, and the father regarded her as a burden and rushed to send her to grandpa, so that he could date all kinds of women more freely and openly.
Grandpa is very busy, Grandma has no time to take care of her, since she was a child Barbara feels that she is abandoned, not liked, just like countless children who lack love in their hearts, she is extremely inferior, closed, and pleasing to others.
Nothing else, but what she had was money, so later she found that as long as it was to give benefits to others, or to give gifts to others, others would play with her, and would come up with all kinds of tricks to please her and make her happy.
She enjoyed the feeling that no one had really taught her to love, and no one had really given her love, so she had spent her whole life buying love and attention in the most primitive and vulgar way.
She always felt that she was ugly, ugly out of the sky, but from the photos, although it was not the appearance of the city, it was definitely not bad.
All-round self-denial, and flattery to the dust, is the sin of the original family.
Soon, the mines buried in her destiny began to explode one by one.
The Georgian prince of the "Always Married Madivani Family", who bears the title of so-called nobility, uses his sister to approach Barbara, then divorces his wife, and becomes the brother of Barbara's good girlfriend, often brushing off the sense of existence.
From time to time, he cared for Barbara and dressed himself as a high-society gentleman to catch her hooked. There was also her own sister lobbying from the side, and soon Barbara fell into the sweet trap of the prince.
Barbara was flattered to be seen by the prince, and in fact, anyone who was slightly nice to her, she would hate to pour out her lungs out of the other person.
Anecdotally, as long as you know how to make Barbara happy, she will give you an expensive gift, after all, there is no cheap thing in her house.
Back to the point, the prince deserved to come from a family that always got married, and getting rich by getting married was a characteristic of their family. In order to marry the wealthier Barbara, the prince divorced the daughter of the first landlord known as "New YorkErd."
What is even more bizarre is that after the divorce of the prince's first wife, he was pursued by the prince's eldest brother, to know that his eldest brother is already three married, and the eldest brother marries his sister-in-law.
After getting married, the Georgian prince opened the road to marriage realization, and he asked Barbara to buy him a house, a car, and all kinds of luxury goods.
And that's not all, he also took Barbara's money and went outside to find a lover.
No matter how stupid and simple Barbara is, she can know that the other party does not really love herself, and even the Georgian prince himself said:
Barbara, you see, I don't love you.
So, the first marriage, pawn.
After the divorce, Barbara fell into an empty situation, when a count named Kurt took advantage of the void.
Kurt is also not a good bird, and he approaches Barbara more because he wants Barbara to renounce her American citizenship and become Danish in order to avoid taxes.
Of course, Barbara can't see through it, she only knows that the other party is good to herself, and she will send her beautiful and precious jewelry to her liking, and she will greet herself and let her feel the long-lost love.
Soon they were married, and at this time, the Earl of Cotter began to show his fangs.
He wants to establish absolute authority and dominance at home, and Barbara will be beaten and scolded by the other party if she disobeys the slightest disobedience.
Even during pregnancy, Kurt did not let Barbara go, you will ask, such a rich woman, why doesn't she leave, do not divorce?
If you look down on this marriage again, you will find that this is not the marriage of Barbara's parents?
If divorced, then her son Lance will be the same as her own experience, she has been unfortunate enough, maternal love, she can't bear her son to repeat her mistakes.
Therefore, for the sake of her son, she was willing to endure.
Domestic violence, marital force, and dependence on drugs because of fear, various diseases, after giving birth to her son Lance, she also lost her reproductive function.
If it weren't for the fact that the scumbag Cotter ended up in jail for the discovery of the secretly hidden arms, perhaps, the silly Barbara would continue to endure in the so-called complete family created for her son.
Two failed marriages made Barbara gradually realize the disgusting and dark side of the world.
It turns out that there are some things in this world that cannot be bought no matter how much money they have.
At a charity dinner, Barbara met the famous Hollywood movie star Gary Grant.
This time, God did not tease her again, and it did send Barbara a true gentleman and prince.
Gary is very popular, but no matter how rich, it is not as good as Barbara's nine-dollar dime, combined with Barbara's first two marriages, the outside world agrees that Gary is also interested in Barbara's money.
In fact, at first Barbara also did not believe, from childhood to adulthood, the people close to her did not want her money, but this time, it was really an accident.
They spent 4 years together, and Gary really didn't ask Barbara for a penny, even if they ended up divorcing, they didn't ask for a single alimony.
For Barbara, this is really unprecedented, because, in addition to this marriage, her other six marriages have caused her to lose huge assets and suffer huge psychological trauma.
For Gary, Barbara was guilty, inferior, she couldn't give Gary anything, her heart was so barren, she couldn't think of any other value besides money.
In the end, they divorced, but their friendship lasted a lifetime.
If Barbara had met Gary at the beginning, perhaps the ending would not have been so tragic.
After that, Barbara had 4 ridiculous marriages. Her criteria for choosing who to marry became more and more arbitrary, and there was no bottom line.
The four husbands were professional racing drivers, playboys, and tennis stars and diplomats.
She didn't know how true these people were to Barbara, but in every marriage, she was like desperately clinging to the last straw.
Her sincerity was a ridiculous mess in front of those liars.
They didn't care, Barbara could commit suicide for love, but later did not succeed. This move did not win the sympathy of everyone, but it became the laughing stock of people around the world.
She also won the title of "miserable rich woman".
Someone is healed by childhood all their life, someone is curing childhood, and unfortunately, Barbara belongs to the latter.
What's more unfortunate is that she desperately wants to give her son the best environment for growing up, but his son is ridiculed and ridiculed because of her.
Some parents are like this, and his son Lance is always teased at school, and then fights with his classmates for this, and because of this, he is reluctant to pay attention to his mother Barbara.
Until an air crash in 1973, Lance and his fiancée were buried in it, and barbara really did not have any worries and nostalgia in this world.
Fate is so tricky, then the jar is broken.
Barbara embarked on a life of drunken dreams and extravagance.
She is self-indulgent, does not seek the future, drinks, uses drugs, and has promiscuity.
She fell into great emptiness, extreme loneliness, and could only live on drugs and alcohol.
In the last years of her life, she was blind, unable to walk independently, and often needed to be held outside the house.
In addition, after more than sixty years of profligacy, being deceived, and not good at financial management, in the last few years, she could only rely on selling assets to survive.
Barbara died of a heart attack in 1979 in a hotel, and at the time she had a meagre $3,000 fortune.
From a rich woman with hundreds of millions of assets to a miserable old woman, Barbara's life is undoubtedly a tragic life.
Her life can be summed up as nothing more than: too rich, too lack of love, too inferior, too pitiful.
If there is an afterlife, will Barbara be willing to do it again?