From homes to jewelry and art, go inside one of the great American fortunes. Oct. 9, 2009— -- In New York City, Brooke Astor, was an icon, the epitome of high society and a respected ...

Sept. 1, 2006 — -- If there was ever hard proof that the gilded age was over, it's the sad, sordid story of alleged greed, wealth and family dysfunction that has surrounded one of America's great ...

Astor Place in New York's Greenwich Village is named for John Jacob Astor, America's first multi-millionaire. "John Jacob Astor and then his son, for generations, they were just buying up parcels here ...

Brooke Astor, whose combination of glamour, wealth, savvy, conscience, and patrician grace created in her a kind of perfect storm of philanthropy, died yesterday at her weekend home, Holly Hill, in ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, the bestselling authors of "Vanderbilt," return with a history of another American ...