Great Depression Heiresses Used Their $$$$ To Steal Each Other’s Men | Doris Duke VS Barbara Hutton

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Barbara Woolworth Hutton and Doris Duke. Baby girls who were born with silver spoons in their mouths. Both born in New York, New York just DAYS apart from each other in 1912. They started out as friends. And it only made sense. Not a lot of people would have had much in common with these 2 based on their wealth alone. When you have the kind of money that they had, your social circles stay relatively small.

Barbara had about $60 million and Doris had about $100 million. And that sounds great. They could afford to buy anything that they could imagine. And they were just kids! But their great fortunes came with sadness. They both inherited so much money at such a young age because each one had lost a parent. Doris lost her father when she was only 12. Barbara lost her mother to an apparent suicide when she was only 4 years old. Both girls lost the parent to whom they were the closest.

So you can see that there’s this amazing foundation for a friendship. Barbara and Doris had a very unique set of circumstances to which practically no one else in the world would have been able to relate.

But because they both came into huge sums of money at the start of the Great Depression, the general public at the time wasn’t really thinking about the emotional hardships that these two girls suffered in order to become millionaires. All that most people knew was that these two girls had a whole lotta money and they (most Americans during the Great Depression) hardly had any.

And this created another likeness that the girls shared - a common enemy - the poor Americans. And THAT gave the news media at the time just what THEY needed to capitalize off of this perfect storm that had been created. The poor people vs the rich girls.

It was ugly, but newswriters knew that it would sell their papers. So gossip columnists would follow every move of Barbara and Doris, and spin their stories in ways that pit the two girls against the American public, and LATER… pit the two girls against EACH OTHER. And that’s when things really got juicy.