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Whom do you see as an heiress to your mother Ingrid Bergman...
...dollar Pritzker dynasty. Instead, the girl who once told classmates that she just worked at a hotel behind the front desk—casually failing to mention that her family owned the chain—has made a name for herself, distinct from her family’s.This Hyatt heiress founded and runs the luxury retirement community series Hyatt Classic Residence, serves as president and CEO of Pritzker Realty Group, chairs the board of the credit reporting company TransUnion, and sits on the Harvard Board of Overseers. Forbes magazine ranked Pritzker number 89 on its 2005 list of 100 most...
...fame is a mystery. How she stays there is a master class in marketing: there are Paris Hilton--branded perfumes, jewelry, books and dance clubs (on deck: Paris Hilton's debut CD). So why not, then, a new cell-phone-based video game, which the hotel heiress introduced at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles? "Sorry, I'm late," Hilton told the crush of ardent fans and photographers who had been waiting more than an hour for her. "I'm really excited to have my new video game Diamond Quest." Er, what? Promotional materials...
...Today, when an heiress can become a household name by making a porn video, everyone's famous and nobody's shocked. And when consumers aren't gobbling up the latest embarrassments of modern stars, they search the past for artists who were pariahs then, suitable for veneration now. Thus the hierarchy is upended. Novelists lauded in the '50s are forgotten now (don't expect a Sloan Wilson or James Gould Cozzens revival any time soon), while writers who were published only in cheap paperbacks (Jim Thompson) are heroes. Producer Stanley Kramer was the social conscience of Hollywood; yet his films...
...press as "Doda." On the face of it, everything was finally turning rosy for the young woman whose early life had been scarred by the tragic death of her mother, Christina Onassis, and circumscribed by the pressures of enormous wealth - an estimated $600 million she picked up as sole heiress to her mother's fortune. Even so, Athina, the last direct descendant of the legendary Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, had reason to expect more last weekend. She grew up believing she would inherit the remainder of her family's fortune - in excess of $1 billion - and assume a hereditary...