The Gilded Age Husbands Who Were Secretly Bankrupt While Their Wives Spent Millions (Documentary)

The Gilded Age Husbands Who Were Secretly Bankrupt While Their Wives Spent Millions (Documentary) @OldMoneyCorrupts On December twenty ninth, nineteen oh five, the newspapers announced that Charles Tyson Yerkes had died worth twenty two million dollars. His widow, Mary, had stood by him since she was sixteen years old, through a prison sentence, two cities, and decades of humiliation. She had every reason to believe the fortune was real. But when the lawyers opened the books, twenty two million became less than one million. The debts consumed nearly everything: the Fifth Avenue mansion, the art collection, even the hospital he had promised to the poor. Mary Yerkes discovered, at the age of forty eight, that her entire adult life had been funded by a lie. Please Note: We Use Public Domain Photos. Copyright Disclaimers: We use images and content in accordance with YouTube Fair Use copyright guidelines. Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states that the fair use of a copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research is not an infringement of copyright.