She was born not with a silver spoon in her mouth, but with a diamond-encrusted platinum spoon.
The fact that a coroner said no autopsy was necessary gives credence to these rumors.
After her mother died, Barbaras father showed no interest in her.
She was passed among relatives and raised by a governess.
Despite the endless riches surrounding her, she grew up with an aching loneliness that money would never cure.
In her teen years, her cousin Jimmy introduced her to the tranquilizer Seconal.
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They were married in June, 1933.
The coupling would give birth to her only son, Lance.
The misery and heartache sent Barbara spiraling into drug abuse and anorexia.
Barbara Hutton first husband, Prince Alexis Mdivani, a former aide-de-camp of Emperor Nicholas of Russia, 1934. (Wikimedia Commons)
Howard Hughes was frustrated he couldnt give Barbara an orgasm.
If I touched myself, he angrily brushed my hand away.
They divorced four years after marrying.
Cary Grant. (Wikimedia Commons)
Cramm died in a car crash near Cairo, Egypt in 1976.
Despite the royal title, her marriage only lasted two years.
Final days and death
Pierre Doan would be Barbaras last husband.
Prince Igor Troubetzkoy (Wikimedia Commons)
She spent the rest of the 1960s and early 1970s falling apart emotionally and physically.
She had no more reason to live.
She died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in May 1979 at age 66.
Porfirio Rubiroso. (Wikimedia Commons)
Barbara near the end. (YouTube)
