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.
Financier Hetty Green was the “Queen of Wall Street”, but her penny-pinching was so extreme, she once refused to pay for a medical operation—and came up with a ghastly “home remedy” instead.
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.