John Jacob Astor IV

John Jacob Astor IV

The richest man that drowned on the Titanic, John Jacob Astor IV, left his wife a five-million-dollar fund, the use of his mansion in New York, one of his limos, and five of his prize horses on the condition she wouldn't remarry. She remarried after his death.

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