Madeleine Astor
Madeleine Astor ( born June 19, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York as Madeleine Talmage Force, † March 27, 1940 in Palm Beach, Florida) in 1911 was made famous by the marriage with the owner of the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel in New York, John Jacob Astor IV, who came on the night of April 15, 1912 in the North Atlantic during the sinking of the Titanic died.
Life
Madeleine came in 1893 as the second of two daughters of William Hurlbut Force and Katherine Arvilla Talmage his wife to the world. Her sister was Katherine Emmons Force ( 1891-1948 ).
Even as she went to school, they already learned one of the richest men in the United States, John Jacob Astor IV, known in Bar Harbor, Maine. At a dinner party on August 6, 1911 Madeleine was introduced as Colonel Astor's future wife in the New York society. After a one-year relationship was on September 9, 1911 in Rhode Iceland, the marriage between the 47- year-old JJ Astor and the only 18 -year-old Madeleine instead. This compound dissolved at the time of a major scandal. Only a year earlier had been divorced from his first wife Ava Astor's difficult marriage.
Survivor of the Titanic sinking
The honeymoon, which were extended not just gossip, gossip, because very, led the two to Egypt and Europe. During this trip turned Madeleine laid her pregnancy. The newlyweds harbored the desire their child to come to the U.S. for the world to obtain U.S. citizenship. The couple booked in April 1912 for the maiden voyage of the Titanic a passage as first-class passengers from Cherbourg and was housed in the luxury suite C62/64. It was in constant company of three employees, their maid Rosalie Bidois, her nurse Caroline Endres and her valet Victor Robbins.
On 14 April 1912, the Titanic collided with an iceberg at 23:40 clock. The couple found himself in a group waiting on the promenade deck to be able to climb into the lifeboat No. 4. After Colonel Astor had helped his wife into the boat, he asked to be allowed to join because his wife " in the family way " was. The second officer Charles Lightoller competent, however, declined because he did not tolerate men in the lifeboats. Astor asked about the number of the lifeboat in order to find it again easily later. Then he lit a cigarette and threw his gloves to Madeleine. Clock at 2:20 - 25 minutes after lifeboat No. 4 had been lowered into the water - the Titanic went under. Madeleine arrived a few hours later on board the Carpathia, hurrying to safety, JJ Astor's body hid the search ship Mackay - Bennett on April 22 from the sea.
The emerged from his first marriage son J. J. Astors, the 20- year-old William Vincent Astor, tried to collect his stepmother Madeleine with its own yacht, but was not allowed.
On August 14, 1912 was Madeleine Astor's first son, whom she John Jacob Astor VI († 1992) ( John Jacob Astor V was the son of William Waldorf Astor JJ's cousin ) called. After the wish of her late husband, she received from then $ 5,000,000 income, but only as long as they do not re- married.
Later life
On 22 June 1916 she was in Maine a childhood friend, the banker William Karl Dick ( 1888-1953 ), tied the knot. He was vice president of Manufacturers Trust Company in New York. Due to the newly received marriage she received no capital, they ceded the entire claim of the Astor fortune. Also in the Astor mansion in Manhattan and Newport, Rhode Iceland, they could no longer live. With her second husband she had two sons named William K. Dick, Jr. and John Henry Dick. Their marriage was divorced on July 21, 1933 in Reno, Nevada.
In the early 1930s she committed the fifteen years younger than Italian boxer Vincenzo " Enzo " Fiermonte ( 1908-1993 ) to teach her son the boxes. They fell in love and were divorced in 1933 from their respective spouses. They married on November 27, 1933 in New York City and spent their honeymoon in Florida. This marriage was short-lived, she was divorced on June 11, 1938 in Palm Beach, Florida. After that they took back to their previous family name Dick.
At the age of 46 years, Madeleine Talmage Astor Dick died on March 27, 1940 in Palm Beach, Florida, a heart attack. She was buried in the Trinity Cemetery in Washington Heights.
Her son John Jacob Astor VI, who had been married three times as his mother died on 26 June 1992 at the age of 79 years. He left behind two children.
In the later film adaptations of the ship's destruction was Madeleine Astor Charlotte Thiele ( Titanic, 1943), Frances Bergen ( sinking of the Titanic, 1953), Beverly Ross (SOS Titanic, 1979), Janne Mortil ( Titanic TV miniseries 1996) and Charlotte Chatton ( Titanic, 1997 ) are shown.