Not long before the famed ocean-liner Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic after plowing into an iceberg on a cold, dark April night in 1912, the richest passenger aboard helped his frightened bride ...

In 1911, a teenaged socialite named Madeleine Talmage Force rose from relative obscurity to land one of the greatest eligible bachelors of her era: a newly divorced Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, who ...

Not long before the famed ocean-liner Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic after plowing into an iceberg on a cold, dark night in 1912, the richest first-class passenger aboard — a longtime Palm Beach ...

John Jacob Astor IV, the wealthiest passenger on the Titanic, perished in the disaster while his pregnant wife, Madeleine, survived. The couple's significant age difference and Astor's recent divorce ...