Barbara Hutton Nickname Poor Little Rich Girl - Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American socialite, heiress and debutante, often dubbed "Poor Little Rich Girl" due to the fact that she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball during the depression era and due to her troubled life.
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| Barbara Hutton Nickname Poor Little Rich Girl |
Heiress to the retail tycoon Frank W. Woolworth, she endured a disturbed childhood that made it hard for her to form relationships. Seven times married, she acquired several grand foreign titles, but was cynically exploited by many of her husbands. Although much envied for her possessions and her life of leisure, she remained deeply insecure, often taking refuge in drink, drugs and playboys. She ended her days almost bankrupt, owing to her naivete and compulsive generosity, her state worsened further by the death of her only son in an air crash.
Though Barbara Hutton was portrayed in the press as the "lucky" young woman who had it all, the public had no idea of the psychological problems she lived with that led to a life of victimization and abuse. Barbara Hutton married seven times:
- 1933 – Alexis Mdivani, a self-styled Georgian prince, divorced 1935;
- 1935 – Count Kurt Heinrich Eberhard Erdmann Georg von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, divorced 1938;
- 1942 – Cary Grant, divorced 1945;
- 1947 – Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, divorced 1951;
- 1953 – Porfirio Rubirosa, divorced 1954;
- 1955 – Baron Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt von Cramm, divorced 1959;
- 1964 – Pierre Raymond Doan, divorced 1966.
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