Months before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying ...

one crew member said he’d never seen “a sadder face or one more beautiful” than Madeleine Astor’s. Months later, she gave birth to a son, who was named after his father. In time ...

More than a century ago, after losing her husband on the Titanic's disastrous voyage Madeleine Talmage Astor rose to prominence in Palm Beach, where she leased oceanfront estates, socialized and ...