heiress
Example Sentences
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It was eventually sold for $85 million in 2011 to Formula 1 heiress Petra Ecclestone.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026
That same year, he married Jane Lauder, an executive at Estée Lauder and an heiress to one of America’s wealthiest families.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Mar-a-Lago, meaning “sea to lake” in Spanish, was built by breakfast-cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post in the 1920s, and in her late years she envisioned it as a winter retreat for presidents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
After nearly a year of wooing, tech scion David Ellison and his Skydance Media sign a deal with heiress Shari Redstone to buy her struggling media company, Paramount.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
“He chose an heiress from Seatown — I do not even know her name.”
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
