![]() Obviously, Consuelo Vanderbilt knew that there was a deal, but probably a lot of girls didn`t.'' At the same time, I think you don`t believe that someone will marry you only for your money. ''I mean, if you`re a rich girl, you know that somebody may try to marry you for your money. ''I think it all just went with being rich,'' muses MacColl. Consuelo Vanderbilt got a relative bargain, paying only $2.5 million in the same year to become the Duchess of Marlborough, but her family eventually invested about $15 million in propping up their royal in-laws.Īgainst the rosy prospect of marrying royalty, such public deeds of sale apparently produced few red faces among the brides themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Leiter, daughter of Levi Leiter, a Chicago and Washington, D.C., real estate magnate and former partner of Chicago department store magnate Marshall Field, paid a dowry of $7.5 million in 1895 to become Lady Curzon. In fact, what had been shocking quickly became routine social news, as the New York Times and London`s Tatler magazine regaled their readers with stories quoting the going prices on American heiresses as if they were pork belly futures. ![]()
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