When John Jacob Astor VI asked for his share of the family fortune, his brother refused—but no one could have foreseen that this would trigger the downfall of the entire Astor family.
Socialite Brooke Astor lived to be 105 years old—but sadly, her glittering world came to a dark and disturbing end long before that.
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