heiress
Example Sentences
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The 1974 political kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was front-page news for a year and a half — her abduction, then her announcement that she was joining her captors, then her discovery, arrest, and prosecution.
From Los Angeles Times
A number of the Mars heiresses have held top roles at the candy and pet-food company.
This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.
From Los Angeles Times
That same year, he married Jane Lauder, an executive at Estée Lauder and an heiress to one of America’s wealthiest families.
The heiress previously acknowledged criticism she got online for her privileged position.
From BBC
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