Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton

In her lifetime, the wealth and glamour of the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton were legendary. Her much-publicized and extravagant lifestyle encompassed lavish parties, seven marriages and many affairs, and her name was constantly linked with film stars and royalty. But there was another side to her life that remained shrouded in mystery for all but a close circle of friends. This was Barbara Hutton the alcoholic, the anorexic, the woman who misused drugs and money, dissipating a huge fortune before her lonely death in 1979. This biography, which makes use of her diaries, letters and journals, is published to tie in with a TV dramatization of her life, starring Farah Fawcett.