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unusual facts about Brooke Astor


John Dryden Kuser

In 1919, Kuser married 17-year-old Brooke Russell (later known as Brooke Astor), and they had a child, Anthony.


Arnold Scaasi

Arnold Scaasi (born May 8, 1930) is a Canadian fashion designer who has created gowns for First Ladies Mamie Eisenhower, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Laura Bush, in addition to such notable personalities as Joan Crawford, Ivana Trump, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Lauren Bacall, Diahann Carroll, Elizabeth Taylor, Catherine Deneuve, Brooke Astor, Arlene Francis, Mary Tyler Moore and The Baroness Wendy DeVere-Austin.

Ernest Schelling

His second wife, whom he married in August 1939, when she was 21 and he was 63, was Helen Huntington "Peggy" Marshall, the stepdaughter of the philanthropist Brooke Astor and a niece of Vincent Astor.

Fraser P. Seitel

In July 2006, Seitel was retained by Philip Marshall, the grandson of New York society heiress Brooke Astor, in a dispute with his father, Anthony Marshall, over the treatment of Astor.


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