When Barbara Woolworth Hutton was born in New York City on November 14, 1912, she was, without a doubt, the richest little girl in the world. Her grandfather, F.W. Woolworth, had revolutionized the retail industry in America... making millions from his Five and Ten Stores.
When F.W. passed away in 1924, Barbara, then just 11 years old, inherited 28 million dollars... a fortune estimated at 500 million dollars today. With her inheritance, Barbara traveled the world. She owned a marble Georgian mansion in the center of London, a duplex apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, a castle in Tangier and a Japanese-style home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Barbara loved to shop and her classic style was legendary: she made the world's "Best-Dressed Lists" time and time again. Her jewelry collection was considered to be one of the finest in the world and it included pieces that had once belonged to Marie Antoinette and the Empress Eugenie of France. But it was her love life that captured the world's attention.
Barbara Hutton was married seven times: to a Prince, a Count, a Baron, a Dominican playboy.. even to actor Cary Grant. But her life was hardly a fairy tale. Join BIOGRAPHY in this in-depth profile of the millionairess who would spend her life, and her fortune, searching for happiness... but it was the one thing that eluded her.
