The Last Great American Heiress

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  • Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024
  • For a time in the 1950s, socialite Rebekah Harkness was true American royalty. Wealthy, elegant, and beautiful, Harkness seemed to have it all-from her oil baron husband to her notoriously raucous parties. But behind her perfect façade lies a chilling history.
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  • @HomesteadingWays
    @HomesteadingWays 7 месяцев назад +142

    I used to clean for several wealthy couples.What I saw was extreme pressure put on the kids. I saw a 4 yr old cry because all he wanted to do was watch cartoons after his half day of school. His mother wouldn't have it. He HAD to go to swim classes and violin lessons before picking up his sibling from school. A teenage girl of one of the families had to make her own clothes to prove to her parents she was serious about wanting to go to design school. She had a book of about 1,500 pages on EVERYTHING about manners and the proper way to do things. Boys were expected to be #1 in all sports....I'm glad I grew up poor. I had a real family.

    • @luckystoller6171
      @luckystoller6171 7 месяцев назад +14

      People too posh to parent shouldn't have kids. It is a privilege.

    • @janicecooper3088
      @janicecooper3088 7 месяцев назад +1

      I know all about it. Before truth, the right fork.

    • @kimberlyowens5496
      @kimberlyowens5496 7 месяцев назад +1

      Poverty was a plus 😅

    • @SusanShaffer-iv8eh
      @SusanShaffer-iv8eh 6 месяцев назад +1

      I put my 3 kids into swimming so that I could feel confident that they could go to the beach as teens and I didn't have to worry. As it happens they were pretty good. We are in Australia with a history of swimming champions. They all made it into squad. My son first. We were at the pool daily for training and lessons. My daughter then made it into squad. She was a bit more hard headed and said "I am never doing that again." I let her stop. Immediately my son asked if he could quit too. I realised it had become my dream. The only one who stuck at swim training and made any success (until covid meant training stopped) was my youngest who was always trying to catch up with the older two. You have to be hungry to push through the difficulties. I think that girl could have been very successful in fashion.

    • @ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy
      @ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy 6 месяцев назад +1

      Sounds like they raised their kids with very high standards. Meanwhile the rest of us are in the RUclips comments talking about them. 😂

  • @sloanchessman5783
    @sloanchessman5783 7 месяцев назад +132

    Coming from a very wealthy family, I can attest to the fact that “money can’t buy happiness.” Money can buy luxury, material comforts and many, many options, but happiness…no way! My parents, particularly my mother, were very miserable even though they had so much money, and could do pretty much anything they wanted to. Watching them and the way they lived made me really take stock of my own life, and strive to not repeat their patterns. I’m now 60 years of age, and for all intents and purposes, have lived a very happy life. If I could give a bit of advice, it would simply be to always be grateful for the things you do have, and never compare your life to anyone else’s life….comparison is the thief of joy.

    • @joeldejonge2986
      @joeldejonge2986 7 месяцев назад +16

      There's absolutely a limit to where money can buy happiness. A limit beyond which yes has diminishing returns. But a roof over your head, good food in your stomach, a lovely place to live, the money and time to pursue hobbies instead of (or for) work, the ability to indulge in culture and comfort, and distance oneself from crime, cannot be understated as problems that money can in fact solve. And the fact of the matter is everyone deserves that much. In my honest opinion.

    • @lorenadiaz442
      @lorenadiaz442 7 месяцев назад +2

    • @lanalorenzen
      @lanalorenzen 6 месяцев назад +6

      Money doesn't buy happiness but it does buy freedom and if one has his or her priorities in place, that's everything!

    • @animalsarebeautifulpeople3094
      @animalsarebeautifulpeople3094 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​@joeldejonge2986 everyone "deserves" that much? Who is going to give it to them? Take it from the rich? We already tried that with COMMUNISM and it creates ABJECT POVERTY FIR EVERYONE excretion the bloody elites in the government like chairman Mao and Kim jong un. NEVER say "everyone deserves this or that" and vote fir government to take things by force from those who have more than you because it results in grotesque tyranny EVERY SINGLE TIME

    • @Diazepamber
      @Diazepamber 6 месяцев назад +3

      I concur. Wealth also gives peace of mind. Some of my old friends from school would just lose it if a car broke down or a bill late.

  • @DB-ne7ki
    @DB-ne7ki 7 месяцев назад +188

    Money does not make a happy life. A lot of wealthy children are completely ignored and nannies are hired and fired. There is no love or intimacy for a little kid. Children are often trophies as well.

    • @myronfrobisher
      @myronfrobisher 7 месяцев назад +12

      too true !!!

    • @michignamymichigan
      @michignamymichigan 7 месяцев назад +13

      That happens with, or without money. 💰

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 7 месяцев назад +9

      @@michignamymichigan: Yep, a lot of poor children are neglected

    • @jinka6171
      @jinka6171 7 месяцев назад +3

      Free money can be a curse…..

    • @dennisyoung4631
      @dennisyoung4631 7 месяцев назад +3

      Personality-Disordered Parents….

  • @purplebutterfly7257
    @purplebutterfly7257 7 месяцев назад +357

    I am continually baffled by rich people who have so much money that they end up doing ridiculous things and making themselves look like the biggest idiots on the planet. 🤡

    • @angelwingz892
      @angelwingz892 7 месяцев назад +26

      The most intelligent people are not the richest people. There is a chasm as wide as a universe.

    • @hellooutthere8956
      @hellooutthere8956 7 месяцев назад +21

      They are psychopaths.

    • @swanofusk9314
      @swanofusk9314 7 месяцев назад +10

      I know a lot of poor people that do too…

    • @SunFlower-yd6kt
      @SunFlower-yd6kt 7 месяцев назад +2

      I totally agree 💯

    • @psisky
      @psisky 7 месяцев назад +4

      I'm baffled by their greed.

  • @gmaureen
    @gmaureen 7 месяцев назад +245

    Children learn what they live. ... she had no parenting, no guidance, no love.

    • @lisabaltzer4190
      @lisabaltzer4190 7 месяцев назад +20

      My late husband was raised in a boarding school. He said that school was one of the best things that ever happened to him. My husband was a great man, so that must have been a wonderful school. Judging by the way his sisters came out, sending him to a boarding school was the right thing to do for him.

    • @GoodieGurl
      @GoodieGurl 7 месяцев назад +4

      Yup 🤗. And then go on to live what they learned.

    • @b.l.fisher8230
      @b.l.fisher8230 7 месяцев назад +8

      No public school, (say what you will about that) no guidance, no "real" friends, no monetary limit (?!), no knowledge of the way ANYTHING works. But a sense of entitlement...
      🤔🫡

    • @ultravioletpisces3666
      @ultravioletpisces3666 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@lisabaltzer4190it was better than being completely neglected, but children are meant to have the love and care and protection of their parents.

    • @lisabaltzer4190
      @lisabaltzer4190 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@ultravioletpisces3666 True, but in my husband’s case, he was better off at that boarding school. He was an unplanned inconvenience and was treated as such. I knew him since I was 8 and he was 10.

  • @sherryBLUE735
    @sherryBLUE735 7 месяцев назад +603

    Trust me when I say my first husband was from a very wealthy family. After two months in the family I left and had the marriage desolved. They way they lived was a nightmare. I think being ultra wealthy causes brain damage.

    • @sarahalbers5555
      @sarahalbers5555 7 месяцев назад +77

      Like the DuPonts and the Gettys.

    • @rebeccalee1065
      @rebeccalee1065 7 месяцев назад

      ....Or Mental Illness.

    • @jane1958
      @jane1958 7 месяцев назад +25

      Yup

    • @Bearwithme560
      @Bearwithme560 7 месяцев назад

      @@sarahalbers5555 And the Johnson & Johnson family of ne'er-do well trust fund babies.

    • @michignamymichigan
      @michignamymichigan 7 месяцев назад +50

      Being manipulated and dismissed as a nuisance causes brain damage. 💔

  • @rebeccalee1065
    @rebeccalee1065 7 месяцев назад +80

    If Her Son's Life In PRISON Were The 'Happiest' In His Life...I Would Hate To Think What The WORST Looked Like. She Clearly Failed As A Mother.

    • @PeleRana-pp6zc
      @PeleRana-pp6zc 7 месяцев назад +5

      She failed as a human being!

    • @naelyneurkopfen9741
      @naelyneurkopfen9741 7 месяцев назад +1

      She failed herself as much as she failed everyone else, and I'd bet you she knew it. She ran too fast for it to settle in, but it was always right behind her.

    • @kathywiseley4382
      @kathywiseley4382 7 месяцев назад

      Her own parents set the tone for that, I should think. A very sad life.

    • @kllwc7772
      @kllwc7772 7 месяцев назад

      She reminds me of Lee Remick ,but without the class/empathy 😊

    • @kllwc7772
      @kllwc7772 7 месяцев назад +1

      What she needed was therapy 😅

  • @harrylutz7321
    @harrylutz7321 7 месяцев назад +112

    Her behavior is very narcissistic. I pity her poor children and grandchildren.

    • @SBel65
      @SBel65 7 месяцев назад +8

      …and pets!

    • @jenniferyule8786
      @jenniferyule8786 7 месяцев назад

      This is incorrect facts. This person is always wrong with her facts. Total bs and the stock footage is not correct either.

  • @Armond2013
    @Armond2013 7 месяцев назад +206

    Ridiculous. Most of the film is generic footage with nothing to do with Harkness. Even when narration is about Harkness as a young woman, the same picture of her as an older woman is continually shown. I think there are 3 actual photos of her in this whole video. The rest is stock footage. And despite the tease about "transforming into a disturbing Frankenstein. there are no pictures to back this up. Try harder. Much harder.

    • @MFiction60
      @MFiction60 7 месяцев назад +18

      And no historic perspective as to how few rights women had.

    • @jinka6171
      @jinka6171 7 месяцев назад +23

      You’re right,,,,…stop the stock photos….bump up your visuals…

    • @JudeGibson-kp7cc
      @JudeGibson-kp7cc 7 месяцев назад

      @@jinka6171 easy job this person has, just google, copy and paste

    • @lianeoneill2880
      @lianeoneill2880 7 месяцев назад +16

      I appreciate the work that was put into this as I’ve never heard of Rebecca. It’s easy to criticize. Thank you for the information and time .

    • @MetsterAnn
      @MetsterAnn 7 месяцев назад +10

      The script was ok but why even add visual id they are mostly unrelated? Very disappointing.

  • @stevenweikert7062
    @stevenweikert7062 7 месяцев назад +105

    In what possible sense can Rebekah Harkness be called the "The Last Great American Heiress"? She died in 1982 so it would mean there were no "Great American Heiresses" left after that. What about Gloria Vanderbilt who only died in 2019? What about Doris Duke who died in 1993? What about Patty Hearst who is still alive and kicking? Ariana Rockefeller or Alice Walton or any of the children of the Bezos, Musk or Gates families?

    • @janelcloutier9543
      @janelcloutier9543 7 месяцев назад +1

      She wasn’t the greatest, so there were many great American heiresses

    • @michignamymichigan
      @michignamymichigan 7 месяцев назад +4

      The indeed at the end was absurd. These clips are interesting. The information within can be deceiving.

    • @ethanreaves8429
      @ethanreaves8429 7 месяцев назад +1

      What about...

    • @stevenweikert7062
      @stevenweikert7062 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@ethanreaves8429 Couldn't quite squeeze out a complete thought eh? Maybe some ex-lax would help.

    • @annchabassol5804
      @annchabassol5804 7 месяцев назад +4

      You forgot Eileen Gillespie Slocum. 1915-2008. The Grande Dame of Newport society.

  • @beverlychase3587
    @beverlychase3587 7 месяцев назад +40

    This was an interesting story I’ve never heard of her before now. Thankyou for your presentation- I didn’t leave this story thinking much of this woman / she seems like a narcissistic sociopath

  • @paulbromley6687
    @paulbromley6687 7 месяцев назад +26

    Proof that miserable stupid people with money are just the same as miserable stupid people who have hardly any money. Life is about finding your own way, getting to grips with what fulfilment you can get personally save the whale, children, build something,write something,paint something sail around the world single handedly or die trying.

  • @WhineNot
    @WhineNot 7 месяцев назад +56

    Why does young Rebecca look every minute of 40 years old?

  • @12thDecember
    @12thDecember 7 месяцев назад +72

    I enjoy the interesting narratives in your uploads, but please do us a favor and don't use stock videos. As for the photos, please caption them. Sometimes I couldn't tell if an image was of Rebekah or her mother, or what was going on. Also, why no images of such a vain woman in her youth?

    • @robine6337
      @robine6337 7 месяцев назад

      I like the stock videos

    • @createone100
      @createone100 7 месяцев назад +4

      Cheap production.

    • @ultravioletpisces3666
      @ultravioletpisces3666 7 месяцев назад +3

      This comment is so patronizing. She owes you nothing and can use whatever footage she wants.

    • @createone100
      @createone100 7 месяцев назад +6

      @@ultravioletpisces3666 Well of course he does. But the commentator would like his/her viewing experience improved. Taking a suggestion such as this is helpful to the producer as well as the audience.

    • @luckystoller6171
      @luckystoller6171 7 месяцев назад +5

      Yes, wouldn't you think a wealthy fashionista would have many many pictures taken of her throughout her life? Would love to have seen more of them.

  • @rubychew6535
    @rubychew6535 7 месяцев назад +21

    Rebecca did what her mother did to her because this was learned behavior.

  • @Richard-g4u1r
    @Richard-g4u1r 7 месяцев назад +25

    After J D Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye was published, a huge swarm of oddballs and misfits, like Mark David Chapman, descended on him. So he became an extreme recluse for the rest of his life.

  • @pauladouglas9891
    @pauladouglas9891 7 месяцев назад +48

    Her form actually looks pretty good in her ballet posed pictures

    • @anncain2432
      @anncain2432 7 месяцев назад +2

      Not to me....she was never good enough to get a scholarship to her own ballet company. Trust me, I grew up in this world...she had mediocre training at best.

    • @ceceliaclarke8427
      @ceceliaclarke8427 7 месяцев назад

      I agree. She looks graceful, in the still photographs presented. Head carriage is correct and she had the lines of classical ballet. Would need to see a video with movement,.to form an opinion. Would be interested to know more about her connection to m
      Barishnikov
      Did she support his career?

    • @silverfeetsue
      @silverfeetsue 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@ceceliaclarke8427 she was instrumental in creating the Harkness Ballet which lead to Joffrey Ballet. Robert Joffrey owes her a lot

    • @v.britton4445
      @v.britton4445 6 месяцев назад

      Not really. I was a ballet dancer and danced at Harkness School.
      She was a lousy ballet dancer, but looked like she might have worked at it.

    • @v.britton4445
      @v.britton4445 6 месяцев назад

      She was not a good dancer.
      I was a ballet dancer and she took ballet but never danced well.

  • @amandapittar9398
    @amandapittar9398 7 месяцев назад +37

    She didn’t really stand a chance right from the beginning. She was shown no love so could show no love. The testosterone comments were interesting. Before you mentioned them, I thought she was looking a bit mannish, masculine. Money was at the root of her problems intertwined with a lack of love and friendship. I don’t feel sorry for her, at many points in her life she could have changed. She chose not to. That’s the tragedy.

  • @lauraburroughs226
    @lauraburroughs226 7 месяцев назад +24

    Interesting story but a sick, “poor” woman in spirit.

  • @MFiction60
    @MFiction60 7 месяцев назад +17

    I believe it's important to understand how few rights women had during her life. Women couldn't get a credit card without a man's signature, or buy a car, or well, so many things. Women were extensions of the men they were attached to. She bucked that system because she had money & married money. I can kind of understand her Rebellion. And Salvador Dali is nothing to sneeze at. Her parents weren't really parents so she never learned how. Just put in historic perspective- her story might make more sense. It's important to understand these stories as they relate to the time & circumstances in which they happen.

    • @mkat4271
      @mkat4271 7 месяцев назад

      Yeah they didn't have credit cards back then...

    • @MFiction60
      @MFiction60 7 месяцев назад +1

      @mkat4271 yes they did. They were called "charge plates."

    • @mkat4271
      @mkat4271 7 месяцев назад

      @@MFiction60 credit cards were not used until diners club card in 1950. It was the first multi use card. Anything before that was just store credits for specific stores.

    • @MFiction60
      @MFiction60 7 месяцев назад

      @mkat4271 Store credit cards or charge plates are the same things. It's not about the language- it's the fact that women did not have the right to get credit without a man vouching for her. You're clearly trying to miss the forest for the trees.🙄🙄🙄

  • @pcblu1
    @pcblu1 7 месяцев назад +22

    SHE WOULD HAVE MADE A GOOD WIFE FOR CALIGULA

  • @michellecox1742
    @michellecox1742 7 месяцев назад +4

    I really appreciate that they are real people narrating and nof robots 🤖

  • @Carole-j3t
    @Carole-j3t 7 месяцев назад +11

    Amanda Plummer could play her in a biopic.

  • @eilenekellogg-ki2br
    @eilenekellogg-ki2br 7 месяцев назад +29

    She lived in never never land.

    • @michignamymichigan
      @michignamymichigan 7 месяцев назад +1

      She tried to make herself happy sporadicly. It had to be awful for her, just as it appeared.

  • @soniaclarkstewart
    @soniaclarkstewart 7 месяцев назад +18

    I knew that name was familiar after I saw the picture of Baryshnikov.

  • @ckotcher1
    @ckotcher1 7 месяцев назад +9

    I see Mikal Baryshnikov, a bunch of these pictures ❤❤❤❤

  • @carolynsilvers9999
    @carolynsilvers9999 7 месяцев назад +24

    She might have inherited some genes that led to her behavior

    • @BlackSheep380
      @BlackSheep380 7 месяцев назад

      Yep. The genes mentioned in Genesis 3:15 and Psalm 58:3-5

  • @wulfsorenson8859
    @wulfsorenson8859 7 месяцев назад +4

    She had everything handed to her on a plate and had nothing to live for. She had no purpose, was lost and depressed. Most of her weird actions came out of boredom. This woman was the victim of too much money.

  • @jessarain9917
    @jessarain9917 7 месяцев назад +20

    Her first husband looks like the first incarnation of a young Tommy Lee Jones.

  • @jelsner5077
    @jelsner5077 7 месяцев назад +31

    "Staten Island beauty parlor" cracked me up! 😆🤣😭

    • @RoderickFernandez-ps5ci
      @RoderickFernandez-ps5ci 7 месяцев назад

      Well at least we got some idea what it looked like as he showed no pictures of it there must be many photographs of it I'm going to look right now to see if I can find some

  • @baylorsailor
    @baylorsailor 7 месяцев назад +20

    Frankenstein is the doctor in the story Frankenstein. The monster is called "Frankenstein's Monster". Also, the saying is "left little to desire" not "left some to desire".

    • @linziee.8651
      @linziee.8651 7 месяцев назад

      And women not woman used earlier 🙄

  • @haleyrobb5198
    @haleyrobb5198 7 месяцев назад +6

    Taylor Swift Bought the Ballet house she built. She also wrote a song about her and the house

  • @community1949
    @community1949 7 месяцев назад +3

    She was an unloved, abused child so she grew up into a unloving, abusive parent and spouse - money does not give you class, empathy, or intelligence. Wealth just pays the bills but it cannot give you happiness if you are NOT mentally well.

  • @cynthiaconner8601
    @cynthiaconner8601 7 месяцев назад +5

    Money does not buy: happiness,love,joy,intelligence or class...

  • @8531022
    @8531022 7 месяцев назад +6

    It’s weird seeing that footage that looks like it’s from the Waldorf. That’s where I was a deb in 1985. And yes…the rich are different. They’re bonkers.

  • @carolynsilvers9999
    @carolynsilvers9999 7 месяцев назад +36

    She fits the profile of a narcissist

  • @shanahaim5935
    @shanahaim5935 7 месяцев назад +3

    These rich people get so bored and restless and not once does it occur to them to help the less fortunate..

  • @legal_addiction62
    @legal_addiction62 7 месяцев назад +8

    Sad for her children, very sad

  • @otaku1524
    @otaku1524 7 месяцев назад +15

    More money than she knew what to do with, and not enough life to use all of that money wisely. Rebekah did it Her Way, I suppose.

    • @michignamymichigan
      @michignamymichigan 7 месяцев назад +1

      Too bad her way didn't promote health for herself and those around her.

  • @joyceaitchison5900
    @joyceaitchison5900 7 месяцев назад +6

    Very interesting story Thank You

  • @Shivey-Caroline-7-23
    @Shivey-Caroline-7-23 7 месяцев назад +33

    Money can't buy you peace or true happiness'

    • @RoderickFernandez-ps5ci
      @RoderickFernandez-ps5ci 7 месяцев назад +3

      I disagree with you it can buy peace and happiness if you do the right thing with it

    • @emmaphilo4049
      @emmaphilo4049 7 месяцев назад

      It depends on a person circumstances but it definitely can in many instances

  • @sandrasanders706
    @sandrasanders706 7 месяцев назад +2

    Never heard of her. Excellent video!!👏👏👏

  • @wendiwonderly1419
    @wendiwonderly1419 7 месяцев назад +24

    Her first husband was from the pierce family? Their most famous ancestor was George w bush and his mother Barbara pierce bush

    • @Angie-mm9rn
      @Angie-mm9rn 7 месяцев назад +23

      An ancestor comes BEFORE posterity so your sentence should read: "....Their most famous DESCENDANTS are George W Bush and his mother Barbara Pierce Bush."

    • @sarazimmerman713
      @sarazimmerman713 7 месяцев назад +3

      Descendant not ancestor

    • @anncain2432
      @anncain2432 7 месяцев назад +1

      Very interesting..thanks for that tidbit.

  • @christie4004
    @christie4004 7 месяцев назад +2

    Great story, thanks

  • @jennifergallagher2447
    @jennifergallagher2447 6 месяцев назад +2

    Other "emotionally damaged drama queens"? How flippant and dismissive this sounds. Just because they were born to wealthy parents doesn't mean that they didn't suffer from their childhoods.

  • @lilithsmith1290
    @lilithsmith1290 7 месяцев назад +16

    I did not get that , what is or was wrong with Staten Island beauty salon? I like that saying : when you marry for money you work very hard

    • @RSF-DiscoveryTime
      @RSF-DiscoveryTime 7 месяцев назад +3

      The Salon by itself was perfect. It was the gossip that truly did them all in. All they knew was gossip.
      They gossiped in the morning, and continued the gossip all the way through sundown. Phrases like, "Could you imagine Petunia Vanderbilt purchasing a new lawnmower?" were commonly heard even on Sundays.

    • @lilithsmith1290
      @lilithsmith1290 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@RSF-DiscoveryTime .Thanks for the info. I think most people in beauty salon Gossip , most people in this business are use to listen to the peoples problems . Bar tender , beautician , cab driver , Funeral director , they are all Gossipmonger ! And nothing wrong with that!

    • @RoderickFernandez-ps5ci
      @RoderickFernandez-ps5ci 7 месяцев назад +2

      0:00 there's nothing wrong with Staten Island beauty parlors accept that people live on Staten Island go to them and I can bet there aren't many black people going to the nether if you get my drift

    • @Arya-1111
      @Arya-1111 7 месяцев назад

      @@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci NO DONT GET YOUR DRIFT

  • @ralphromeo7066
    @ralphromeo7066 7 месяцев назад +3

    This documentary to the contrary, I've heard nothing but glowing reviews of her life. As the daughter of Frankenstein, she faired rather well.

  • @Auntie-Sara
    @Auntie-Sara 7 месяцев назад +31

    A life not worth living despite having access to nearly every imaginable choice.

    • @deniseedodson1938
      @deniseedodson1938 7 месяцев назад +6

      donald trump!

    • @bobwalters7414
      @bobwalters7414 7 месяцев назад

      @@deniseedodson1938haha, just like Obama who went into the white house literally worth $500,000 and now is worth 30 plus million. Pretty good for 8 years of presidency. They are all crooks.

    • @bobwalters7414
      @bobwalters7414 7 месяцев назад

      @@deniseedodson1938Obama worth 500,000 before elected and is worth 70 million now. 😂🤣🤣 guess the presidency pays a lot under the table. They are all crooks.

    • @michignamymichigan
      @michignamymichigan 7 месяцев назад +1

      Except for ecceptance as a human being, and nurturing.

  • @chris-in-oceania
    @chris-in-oceania 7 месяцев назад +9

    The narrator in this video has a lovely voice. Good video, thanks.

  • @cortrichards8179
    @cortrichards8179 7 месяцев назад +1

    Ah, Pierce. The minute you said that, I knew it had to be First Lady, Barbara Bush's family. Her maiden name was Barbara Pierce, after all. Pretty sure there is a connection there somewhere, even if it is not later mentioned in the video. Sounds like our Rebekah skipped out on that marriage as soon as she was able. I am a professional genealogist, so I am going to have fun with the Pierce family today! Also the Harkness family. It should be very interesting. Thanks for inadvertently turning me on to a few more interesting families to research! Great video as always, and I learn something new every time.

  • @AnnacolleenEtters
    @AnnacolleenEtters 7 месяцев назад +6

    I've known some very wealthy people, indeed. All were as nutty as fruitcake, or mean as yellow jacket's, at the end of Autumn. Sad, really, considering the good that might have been realized, through some of their holdings.

  • @v.britton4445
    @v.britton4445 6 месяцев назад +1

    She had an amazing townhouse on East 75th, near 5th Ave. she turned it into a ballet school and company.
    There was a blue and white and gold studio with carved woodwork, a pink and gold one, and a red and gold one. There were fool the eye paintings in the dining area, and Faberge' eggs and art all around.
    On the top floor was a doctor to give B-12 injections to tired dancers, and he would help keep them rail thin...cough cough.

  • @whollymary7406
    @whollymary7406 7 месяцев назад +3

    Couldn’t you say something more positive about your characters? People are basically good and just because she had some weird habits doesn’t make her a villain

  • @tamarakopach3635
    @tamarakopach3635 6 месяцев назад +1

    🎉🎉🎉😂Love this channel.,. And even more when REAL narrating is given!!! A l is being perfected...but real HUMAN delivery on any given subject can never really be substituted. It will always be detected!! 😮😂😅The content seems to be on track though..Keep as many Real People on as long as you can...OK???!!!😅😅❤

  • @Chickching
    @Chickching 7 месяцев назад +1

    Living your life as you see fit. We are all guilty with or without money. Lets stay positive and learn and not judge.

  • @imaginhoneychurch6025
    @imaginhoneychurch6025 7 месяцев назад +16

    Thank you for your interesting stories. She seemed a horrible woman.

  • @pauladouglas9891
    @pauladouglas9891 7 месяцев назад +16

    Who needed 8 kitchen?

  • @nomansland4811
    @nomansland4811 7 месяцев назад +35

    She was Ok looking but not a great beauty.

  • @mahatchiko602
    @mahatchiko602 7 месяцев назад +10

    When you had it all. What else is left, then going bizarre and evil. Because nobody cares.

    • @luckystoller6171
      @luckystoller6171 7 месяцев назад +2

      What else is left? Helping others, rescuing those in need, animals and this planet.

  • @sallysorrentino4013
    @sallysorrentino4013 7 месяцев назад +1

    I think thats why we have Harkness Park in Waterford, Ct is an old mansion & grounds thats beautiful for weddings/photoshoots

  • @anncain2432
    @anncain2432 7 месяцев назад +1

    I saw Ms. Harkness while on summer scholarship to the ballet company she basically stole from Robert Joffery and renamed it Harkness Ballet. I only saw her once when she watched a class. She looked like a colorful parrot with too much makeup. I'm a Texan and knew she married wealthy oil man from Texas, William Harkness. I have always felt the great Robert Joffrey who founded his wonderful ballet company from hard work and sacrifice. He left for Chicago where he started over again.

    • @luckystoller6171
      @luckystoller6171 7 месяцев назад

      Joffrey was a genius innovator and the time his company spent in Los Angeles was pure bliss for every Angelino who saw it, young and old, rich and poor. Great memories, thank you for reminding me of how wonderful it was❤❤❤

  • @jr4062
    @jr4062 7 месяцев назад +7

    She was abused by her parents that caused the ruin of her life and her childrens lives.

  • @vickieelisa2248
    @vickieelisa2248 7 месяцев назад +11

    It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle or fill a swimming pool full of expensive champagne than for a rich person to understand humble love and wisdom of others. Wealth without temperance or empathy breeds excess and insanity.

    • @luckystoller6171
      @luckystoller6171 7 месяцев назад

      Yes but wealth WITH temperance and empathy can make the world a better place!

  • @GoGoWhoa64
    @GoGoWhoa64 7 месяцев назад +1

    This should be a movie

  • @lindareimer6432
    @lindareimer6432 7 месяцев назад +2

    I like the narration ❤ Sounds like the travel tip girl.

  • @geraldineashby-nn2vn
    @geraldineashby-nn2vn 7 месяцев назад +9

    I absolutely love your voice and love to know if you do other podcasts or anything like that. Your voice just keeps my attention to the story. Where is some other ones make me fade away a little bit

  • @maryannbishop5751
    @maryannbishop5751 7 месяцев назад +32

    Holy shit. Can you say needs therapy any louder

  • @karenbrown4524
    @karenbrown4524 7 месяцев назад +2

    Excellent story and *SO* well executed! I'm binging on Factinate presentations today and probably tomorrow, as well.

  • @suzanneburns2931
    @suzanneburns2931 7 месяцев назад +20

    This was a horrible story.

  • @agabrielhegartygaby9203
    @agabrielhegartygaby9203 7 месяцев назад +17

    Who are these people? So damaged....as someone once said - "nothing important can be purchased by money". G

  • @gidgitvonlarue9972
    @gidgitvonlarue9972 7 месяцев назад +5

    Money does not buy class or style!

  • @RoyalNorthern251
    @RoyalNorthern251 7 месяцев назад

    A very sad tale, start to finish 💔

  • @carogibson7109
    @carogibson7109 7 месяцев назад

    Those were the best days to be alive as her! ❤🎉

  • @ravenravella1000
    @ravenravella1000 7 месяцев назад +4

    What is Baryshnikov doing in there? (3:02)

  • @MasterofScrutiny
    @MasterofScrutiny 7 месяцев назад +3

    Peoples inner-selves end up on their faces eventually.

  • @jvallas
    @jvallas 7 месяцев назад +69

    The photos nearly all have nothing to do with the narrative. Hers is actually a very boring story.

    • @JennieColmer-n7h
      @JennieColmer-n7h 7 месяцев назад +7

      Amen to that! Narrator sounded stuck up!

    • @pamartin
      @pamartin 7 месяцев назад +5

      I learned quickly that this has channels video is seldom worth bothering with. But, I'll plug in my earbud and listen while I do something productive away from my phone. Kind of a plus for me.

    • @JacobusEngelbrecht
      @JacobusEngelbrecht 7 месяцев назад

      🎉🎉🎉🎉

    • @poetcomic1
      @poetcomic1 7 месяцев назад +4

      Too True. Any college kid could spend an afternoon collecting copyright free images and putting them in order - even mixed with some newspaper photos and headlines as long as they are coherent.

    • @denisesmith2745
      @denisesmith2745 7 месяцев назад +6

      Tough crowd

  • @danthomas6587
    @danthomas6587 7 месяцев назад +2

    Good stuff. Subbed.

  • @Curlyblonde
    @Curlyblonde 6 месяцев назад

    People ignore or dismiss a person's personality and moral values when they marry for money. Good example of this. Then they either divorce well or lead separate lives during their marriage.

  • @wookinooki9023
    @wookinooki9023 7 месяцев назад +3

    Far from being "the last great heiress". There's TONS of heirs and heiresses to billion dollar fortunes.

    • @luckystoller6171
      @luckystoller6171 7 месяцев назад +1

      Much greater too! Gloria Vanderbilt for one. Great lady. And Anderson Cooper's Mom❤

  • @rosemarymceathron4037
    @rosemarymceathron4037 7 месяцев назад +17

    Too much money isn't good for anyone.

    • @wulfsorenson8859
      @wulfsorenson8859 7 месяцев назад +1

      Seems to be as bad for mental health as extreme poverty. I noticed fame can cause major mental health issues too.

  • @billquinn6224
    @billquinn6224 7 месяцев назад +2

    I don't like wealthy people because when they look at you, it's a look of. "Ha, Ha I can buy you." Or, "Ha, Ha I own you."
    Had a guy say that to me one time,
    In the end, he needed major dental work.
    Have a good one.

  • @jewelphoenix2334
    @jewelphoenix2334 7 месяцев назад +5

    This amazing woman leads me to believe she had Bipolar1 Disorder. Unmedicated. I have an insight into this mental illness as I, and 2 of my children have it.

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 7 месяцев назад

      Maybe she was just an arrogant
      A*****e....?

  • @m.f.richardson1602
    @m.f.richardson1602 7 месяцев назад

    Very interesting
    Thank you

  • @user-xu3fs6gr5p
    @user-xu3fs6gr5p 7 месяцев назад +22

    At least the narrator is not a $50 Robot live most of these BS videos use.

  • @Richard-g4u1r
    @Richard-g4u1r 7 месяцев назад +2

    Opera gloves everywhere. In the bad old days before lasers beams and light pulse machines.

  • @sicooper4230
    @sicooper4230 7 месяцев назад +2

    Crazy but....endearingly fabulous 🍸💰

  • @Tearsandbjs
    @Tearsandbjs 7 месяцев назад

    Btw the picture shown at 5:17 is purportedly her Rhode Island mansion.
    The bldg shown is not her RI mansion. It's almost certainly a hotel.

  • @Valentina-Steinway
    @Valentina-Steinway 6 месяцев назад

    My family had lots of money, but they weren’t quite like this.
    My mother didn’t raise me, her parents did. She was more damaged by them than I was.
    I had better coping mechanisms.

  • @jomoland
    @jomoland 7 месяцев назад

    Some people just deserve the riches they’re born into.

  • @mickvonbornemann3824
    @mickvonbornemann3824 7 месяцев назад +18

    All those examples of outrageous behaviours actually seem pretty tame in reality

    • @PsulOrtiz
      @PsulOrtiz 7 месяцев назад

      Tame except for screwing up her own children and other dependents. How is that ever sluffed under the rug? Or excused!
      She repeated the behaviors that made her so angry and self-destructive, but why perpetuate that onto the unborn?
      Of the 4 kids from my family, 3 of us never had children--- which is very statistically significant!
      A full 75% of my parents children did not attempt to have children.
      I didn't ask my dibs why not, but for me, I said: "No!!! The cycle ends with me!" I was so very, VERY afraid I might repeat something that had been done to me as a child, in a moment of anger, or frustration.
      While it might be understandable to have a rare occurance of poor control dealing with--- anyone, even children, some people make poor or abusive performance their everyday mode of operation. And I said "No! It stops with me!"
      In my 60s and 70s I suddenly wanted to become a father! I had gotten the ghosts expunged from my head and had my temper well understood and under control. With plenty of time and money, and love to give, it would be great to have a family to devote my energies and time to. NOW I could be a great father! Longevity is in my family. I would so enjoy having kids--- now!
      Maybe there is a child I could foster, that would be willing to give me a shot! Guess I will seriously look into it! It would/could/should be a wonderful thing to do with an older child/young adult. Exciting. Rewarding. Even fun!
      Hmmmm...... wish I had thought of this before!

  • @edglebennett6312
    @edglebennett6312 7 месяцев назад +2

    fascinating!

  • @d.l.l.6578
    @d.l.l.6578 7 месяцев назад +11

    I wonder if sometimes money can be cursed because it was accumulated in wicked ways.

    • @luckystoller6171
      @luckystoller6171 7 месяцев назад

      No such thing, don't believe silly superstitions.

  • @richardshiggins704
    @richardshiggins704 4 месяца назад

    Very interesting . God protect me from the extremes of this life on earth .

  • @lillydee5978
    @lillydee5978 6 месяцев назад +3

    How is this "the last great American dynasty". I see no greatness whatsoever. What a completely vile sorry excuse of a human being, her last "lover" too. Both revolting. I can't believe Taylor would want that horrid tacky house either. Yuck.

  • @mauricedavis2160
    @mauricedavis2160 7 месяцев назад +4

    Excellent channel, excellent episode, "A leopard can cover it's spots but can't change them!" Nuf said...🙏✨👌😢🐲❣️

    • @RoderickFernandez-ps5ci
      @RoderickFernandez-ps5ci 7 месяцев назад +1

      If you call this a good program I can't imagine what you used to listening to this was crap

  • @sugarplum5824
    @sugarplum5824 7 месяцев назад +3

    I had never heard of her 🤷‍♀️

  • @virginiaviola5097
    @virginiaviola5097 7 месяцев назад +3

    Being an ultra wealthy socialite seems to be a bit hit and miss. God bless her for living her life her way. She certainly was a great patron of the arts, and find me an artist who isn’t at least partially bonkers.

  • @FranklinWilson-ev9dq
    @FranklinWilson-ev9dq 6 месяцев назад +1

    Her Parents, Warped The Hell, Out Of Her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @hazelkagey6739
    @hazelkagey6739 7 месяцев назад

    I had never heard of this woman but I watched this because I wondered what she did to cause the deformity and caused her to look strange. But there wasn't s photo of the calcification.
    Not for morbid curiosity but I wondered how the calcification was caused and where it settled.
    My Mother had a heart valve replacement and the animal valve had to be replaced because it calcified.
    I was wondering if she had had surgery on her face and if the calculations setteled in the surgery scars.
    Yet no pictures.

  • @tallulah_teyah
    @tallulah_teyah 7 месяцев назад

    the happiness that they seek to attain, sadly, can only be found in death...