Months before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying 18-year-old socialite Madeleine Talmage Force. To make the news even more ...
In 1903, a year after friend Flagler completed a Palm Beach mansion as a wedding gift for his third wife, Mary Lily Kenan, one of several lavish soirees there included guest John Jacob Astor ...