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...wife Jenny, a former investment banker, in the Hamptons when they both lived in New York. A millionaire heiress to a family fortune from the Skil Corp. power-tool company, she ran most of Sanford's campaigns and was a close adviser in the governor's office. They have four sons...
...Redgrave's white-hot, almost alarming incandescence - that grand stature mixed with a girlish vulnerability - Richardson had her own gifts. Her public presence was spikier, more knowing and skeptical; she seemed not so much ageless as modern, less questing than questioning. She could locate the befuddlement of a brainwashed heiress (in the movie Patty Hearst), the crassness of an old-time good-time girl (as Sally Bowles, a Tony-winning turn, in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret), the desperation in a Tennessee Williams heroine (Suddenly Last Summer on TV; A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway). She was a watchful...
...shift during her time at the University of California-Santa Barbara and radicalized further following her graduation. After moving to Berkeley in 1972, Soliah befriended Angela Atwood, an aspiring actress who introduced her to members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the domestic terrorist sect best known for kidnapping media heiress Patty Hearst...
...studies the U.S. economy and is the well-respected authority on markers of recessions. Ferguson was the vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from 1999 to 2006 and is currently serving in his final year as a member of the University’s governing body. Pritzker, an heiress to the Hyatt dynasty, is the founder and CEO of Hyatt Classic Residence, and was named as one of the wealthiest people in the United States by Forbes Magazine. Pritzker served on the Board of Overseers, the University’s second highest governing body, for a six-year term...
...artist Georgia O'Keeffe. A Tennessee chancery court turned down the deal, finding that it violated the terms of O'Keeffe's bequest. When Fisk then negotiated a $30 million deal to share its entire collection with the museum being built in Bentonville, Ark., by the Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, the court refused that too, for the same reason. Fisk is appealing that decision, but it still faces the opposition not only of the court but of Tennessee attorney general Dennis Cooper, who entered the case to oppose a sale on the grounds that it would deprive the people...