Barbara Hutton

At this point she lapsed into drug abuse. Hutton then developed anorexia, which would plague her for the rest of her life.<br /><br /> Hutton's divorce from Reventlow gave her custody of their son. As her father had done, she left the raising of her child to a governess and private boarding schools.<br /><br /> Popular poet Ogden Nash then took note of Hutton's public private life in the following light verse: <br /><br /> Said Aimee McPherson to Barbara Hutton, "How do you get a marriage to button?" "You'll have to ask some other person." Said Barbara Hutton to Aimee McPherson Read Less

Her next husband was an old friend, German tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm. This marriage also ended in divorce. He died in an automobile crash near Cairo, Egypt, in 1976.<br /><br /> In Tangier, Hutton met her seventh husband, Prince Pierre Raymond Doan Vinh na Champassak. This marriage, too, was short-lived. Raymond Doan was an adopted member of the former royal family of the Kingdom of Champasak.<br /><br /> Hutton frequently appeared drunk in public and her spending continued unabated. She began spending time with younger men, and was known to make gifts to total strangers.<br /><br /> Over the years, apart from an important inheritance which included Old Master paintings and important sculptures, she also personally acquired a magnificent collection of her own which included the spectrum of arts, porcelain, valuable jewelry, including elaborate historic pieces that had once belonged to Marie Antoinette and Empress Eugénie of France, and important pieces by Fabergé and Cartier. Among her pieces of jewelry was the Pasha Diamond, which she purchased as an unusual octagonal brilliant-cut but had recut into a round brilliant, bringing it down to. Read Less

It is said that at her death, $3,500 was all that remained of her fortune. She was interred in the Woolworth family mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.<br /><br /> Several books have been written about Barbara Hutton, the best known of which are: <br /><br /> In 1987, a television motion picture titled Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story starred Farrah Fawcett in the role of Barbara Hutton. Read Less