Months before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying ...

For actor Eric Braeden, best known as Victor Newman on the television soap opera The Young and the Restless, his past ...

After the Titanic sunk with her husband John Jacob Astor IV aboard, Madeline Talmage Astor became a rich widow who often visited Palm Beach ...

Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her in Lifeboat 4, but his apogeal social status and family fortune — born of the fur trade, then turbocharged by New York real ...

After a day on the slopes, head back to this luxe Aspen resort to warm up at the fireside lounge, outdoor whirlpools, and one ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

son of John Jacob Astor IV, who was, among other things, one of those who died aboard the Titanic. “Of course she married Vincent for the money,” said novelist Louis Auchincloss.

John Jacob Astor IV, when the so-called “indestructible” Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, taking the lives of about 1,500 souls. Many stories have been written ...

This Valentine’s Day, The St. Regis Venice, the luxurious five-star hotel located on the Grand Canal, invites guests to ...

The final meal served on the Titanic before the fateful night of April 14, 1912 differed between the three classes on board.