Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Woolworth Hutton was one of the first American socialites to seize the public’s attention for her wealth and lavish style ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1924, 12-year-old Barbara Hutton inherited a $28 million trust fund from her grandfather, retail magnate Frank Woolworth—about $387 million in ...

When she was a teenager, Barbara Hutton, the five & dime store heiress, was as fat as butter, and slim, gum-chewing daughters of plain people were wont to gaze at her newspaper pictures and cry with ...

Engaged. Barbara Hutton, granddaughter of the late Frank Winfeld Woolworth(5¢ & 10¢ stores), next to Doris Duke (tobacco) the most highly publicized U. S. heiress; and Prince Alexis Mdivani of the ...