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Old Money Luxury

She Was the "Party Princess" of The 1980s Who Married a Prince 34 Years Older. By 30, She Inherited Half a Billion in Debt.


The Pulitzer family lost the newspapers within two generations of the prize being named for them

Joseph Pulitzer founded the New York World in 1883 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1917. He left his sons a publishing empire valued, in modern terms, north of $300 million.
His grandson Peter Pulitzer, the same Peter of the 1982 trumpet trial, was by…


3 secret ways “old money” families test a future son-in-law

Almost every “old money” family runs the same screen on a future husband. But they’ll never tell you they’re doing it.

One. They send him to dinner with the most boring relative in the family. If he survives the evening, he passes.
Two. They invite him to a small weekend at the country house, with the intention of some “man to man” time with the patriarch. If he drinks too much or makes too many off-color jokes over golf… he’s likely done…