Babs - The Poor Little Rich Girl Who Just Couldn't Catch a Break

Barbara Hutton - the mystery revealed!

Despite the fact she was one of the richest women in America, this heiress to the Woolworth fortune was never able to find personal happiness, marrying seven husbands before she died broke and alone in 1979. And it's no wonder. When she was four, her mother committed suicide and the press dubbed Barbara "The Poor Little Rich Girl." In 1933, when Barbara turned 21, she inherited her mother's $50 million estate, which made her one of the world's richest women. She married seven times, among them a prince, a count and actor Cary Grant. From her second marriage, Hutton had a son, who died in a plane crash at age 36. Hutton spent her life battling alcoholism, drug dependency and anorexia, and her numerous, expensive divorces left her almost bankrupt. When the reclusive Hutton finally died at age 66, she weighed less than 100 pounds and only $3,000 of her fortune remained.

Her legend lives on in Tangiers.