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heiress

[air-is] / ˈɛər ɪs /






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The roughly 19,000-square-foot house, designed for an oil-and-banking heiress and her husband, is the most expensive for sale in Fort Worth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

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

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

The young lawyer, who had admired the pretty heiress from the minute he first laid eyes on her, did not have a chance to chat.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin