Envious Facts About History's Most Spoiled Heiresses
Through history, the figure of the female heir has triggered mixed emotions, from uneasiness to envy and even lust.
Heiress have come in all shapes and sizes, from the spoiled scions to the princesses of industry and even freedom fighters with big guns to match their purses.
Who doesn’t love a good story about a scandalous heiress, whether she’s up to good or bad? Does more money mean more problems, especially for women? Charge it to daddy’s credit card with these 42 outrageous facts about the world’s most “
spoiled” heiresses.
Spoiled Heiresses Facts
1. Not a Sleeping Beauty Story
Born to wealth herself, Eva Kemeny met her match in Hans Kristian Rausing, the heir to the Tetra-Pak packaging fortune in the 1990s. At the time, they were both in rehab. Both appeared to feed each other’s worst habits, i.e. drugs. In 2012, Hans’ arrest for Class A drug possession led to a raid of the couple's $70 million-dollar home. Police found that the mansion ravaged by squalor, but the nightmare was just beginning. They soon discovered Eva's dead body. It had been decomposing from drug overdose for two months.
2. My Favorite Way for Rich Friends to Cope Too
Lady Henrietta Guinness—yeah, of that Guinness brewing fortune—once said, “If I had been poor, I would have been happy.” Alienated by her own wealthy birth, Henrietta coped by bestowing extravagant gifts upon her pals. She once bought a $70,000 hair salon for her hairdresser and a $28,000 Belgravia restaurant for her Italian chef fiancé. The pair never married, but at least they enjoyed the eatery. And hey, food > love any day.
3. The Highborn Falls Harder
Despite a life of generosity, Guinness heiress Lady Henrietta met a mysteriously violent end. On May 3, 1978, she took her own life in grisly fashion. She climbed up the Ponte delle Torri bridge and fell to her death at the age of 35. Fifteen years earlier, Henrietta suffered intense hospitalization and depression after a car crash. To this day, however, no one is sure what pushed her over the edge.
