Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Woolworth Hutton was one of the first American socialites to seize the public’s attention for her wealth and lavish style ...

LOS ANGELES -- C. David Heymann, a best-selling biographer whose titillating accounts of famous lives often were criticized as inaccurate or dishonest, including a book on heiress Barbara Hutton that ...