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

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

"If J.J. Astor (John Jacob Astor IV) had survived, I’m not convinced life for him — even with all of his money — would have been so great.” In 1916, Madeleine married Brooklyn-society ...

Madeleine Astor was five months pregnant at the time. She gave birth to a son on August 14, 1912, and called him John Jacob Astor V in memory of her husband and the boy's father. The sale takes ...