The Worst Behaved Heiresses In History

The original "Poor Little Rich Girl," Barbara Hutton led a troubled life. Her grandfather was Frank Winfield Woolworth and, as the heiress to his massive retail fortune, she was acknowledged as one of the wealthiest women in the world - not a great look during the Great Depression. Her mother died of suicide when she was just four years old, and her father, Franklyn Laws Hutton, co-founder of a New York investment banking and stock brokerage firm, subsequently neglected her. She was a notorious spender, plowing through her $70 million inheritance to buy ostentatious jewels, show ponies, and mansions. She married and divorced seven times, and counted a baron, three princes, and a count among her hubbies, as well as actor Cary Grant. Throughout her life, she had a fierce rivalry with fellow heiress Doris Duke, famously redecorating her frenemy's home in Hawaii without her permission. She also wed Duke's ex-husband, Dominican playboy Porfirio "Rubi" Rubirosa. When Barbara died, after becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol later in life, she only had $3,500 in the bank.

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