Barbara Hutton, American philanthropist (died 1979)

Barbara Hutton

American philanthropist and socialite (1912–1979)

Barbara Woolworth Hutton was an American debutante, socialite, heiress and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl"—first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930 amid the Great Depression and later due to a notoriously troubled private…