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A socialite is a person who participates in social activities and spends a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained. Socialites are usually wealthy. Socialites in the past used their social skills and connections to promote and raise funds for various charitable or...
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Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer, then Simpson; 19 June 1896 – 24 April 1986) was an American socialite who married, as her third husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of the United...

Date of birth:

  • Jun 19, 1896

Date of death:

  • Apr 24, 1986 (age 89 years)

Patty Hearst

Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954), now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress, socialite, actress, kidnap victim, and bank robber. The granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst and great...

Date of birth:

  • Feb 20, 1954 (age 55 years)

Jolie Gabor

Jolie Gábor Christman de Szigethy (September 29, 1896 - April 1, 1997) was best known as "Mama Jolie", the mother of actresses/socialites Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eva Gabor and Magda Gabor. Born as Jancsi Tilleman in Budapest, Hungary, she claimed to have...

Date of birth:

  • Sep 29, 1896

Date of death:

  • Apr 1, 1997 (age 100 years)

Marjorie Merriweather Post

Marjorie Merriweather Post a.k.a. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was a leading American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc. She was 27 when her father died, and she became the...

Date of birth:

  • Mar 15, 1887

Date of death:

  • Sep 12, 1973 (age 86 years)

Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel

Alma Maria Mahler-Werfel (born Schindler) (31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius,...

Date of birth:

  • Aug 31, 1879

Date of death:

  • Dec 11, 1964 (age 85 years)

Lady Victoria Hervey

Lady Victoria Frederica Isabella Hervey,OBE (born 6 October 1976) is an English model, socialite, aristocrat and former "It girl". Lady Victoria is the elder daughter of the 6th Marquess of Bristol and his third wife Yvonne Marie Sutton . She is the...

Date of birth:

  • Oct 6, 1976 (age 33 years)

Paris Hilton

Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American socialite, heiress, media personality, model, singer, author, fashion designer and actress. Hilton is best known for her appearance on the television series The Simple Life, her several...

Date of birth:

  • Feb 17, 1981 (age 28 years)

Nicole Richie

Nicole Camille Richie (born September 21, 1981) is an American actress, author, socialite, celebutante, singer, and television personality. The adopted daughter of soul singer Lionel Richie, she is perhaps best known for her role in the Fox reality...

Date of birth:

  • Sep 21, 1981 (age 28 years)

Edie Sedgwick

Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick (April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971) was an American actress, socialite, model, and heiress. She is best known for being one of Andy Warhol's Muses. Sedgwick became known as "The Girl of the Year" in 1965 after starring...

Date of birth:

  • Apr 20, 1943

Date of death:

  • Nov 16, 1971 (age 28 years)

Olive Thomas

Olive Thomas (October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent film actress and socialite. She was a Ziegfeld girl and the original flapper. She is best remembered for her marriage to Jack Pickford and her untimely death. Thomas was...

Date of birth:

  • Oct 20, 1894

Date of death:

  • Sep 10, 1920 (age 25 years)

Madeleine Astor

Madeleine Force Astor (June 19, 1893 – March 27, 1940) was the wife of millionaire John Jacob Astor IV and a survivor of RMS Titanic. Madeleine Talmage Force was born on June 19, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York to William Hurlbut Force and Katherine...

Date of birth:

  • Jun 19, 1893

Date of death:

  • Mar 27, 1940 (age 46 years)

Edith Bouvier Beale

Edith Bouvier Beale (November 7, 1917 – ca. January 9, 2002) was an American socialite, fashion model and cabaret performer. She was a first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill. She is best known as "Little Edie," one of the...

Date of birth:

  • Nov 7, 1917

Date of death:

  • Jan 9, 2002 (age 84 years)

Lee Radziwill

Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield Radziwill Ross (née Bouvier, born March 3, 1933 in Southampton, New York), best known as Lee Radziwill, is an American socialite, public relations executive, and former actress and interior decorator. She is the younger...

Date of birth:

  • Mar 3, 1933 (age 76 years)

Doris Duke

Doris Duke (November 22, 1912 – October 28, 1993) was an American heiress, horticulturalist, art collector, and philanthropist. Duke was the only child of tobacco and electric energy tycoon James Buchanan Duke and his second wife, Nanaline Holt...

Date of birth:

  • Nov 22, 1912

Date of death:

  • Oct 28, 1993 (age 80 years)

Kathy Hilton

Kathy Hilton (born Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino, stage name and later renamed Kathy Richards; March 13, 1959) is an American socialite, television host and actress. She is the mother of socialites Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton. Hilton was born in...

Date of birth:

  • Mar 13, 1959 (age 50 years)

Tamara Beckwith

Tamara Beckwith (born 17 April 1970) is an English socialite, noted for her coverage in glossy celebrity magazines such as OK!. She is a presenter for MTV, VH-1 and regularly appears as a reporter for television shows including This Morning and...

Date of birth:

  • Apr 17, 1970 (age 39 years)

Helen Miller Shepard

Helen Miller Shepard (June 20, 1868 – December 21, 1938) was an American philanthropist born in Manhattan in New York City. Born as Helen Miller Gould she was the first born daughter of Jay Gould and Helen Day Miller (1838-1889). Her sister Anna...

Date of birth:

  • Jun 20, 1868

Date of death:

  • Dec 21, 1938 (age 70 years)

Babe Paley

Barbara "Babe" Cushing Mortimer Paley (July 5, 1915 – July 6, 1978) was an American socialite and style icon. She was first privately, and later publicly, known by the popular name "Babe" for most of her life. Born Barbara Cushing in Baltimore,...

Date of birth:

  • Jul 5, 1915

Date of death:

  • Jul 6, 1978 (age 63 years)

Jocelyn Wildenstein

Jocelyn Wildenstein (born August 5, 1940) is a wealthy socialite who has frequently been seen in the tabloid press because of her numerous cosmetic surgeries. Jocelyn grew up in Lausanne, Switzerland where she became a skilled hunter and pilot. Her...

Date of birth:

  • Aug 5, 1940 (age 69 years)

Martha Bulloch

Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (July 8, 1835 – February 14, 1884) was the mother of US President Theodore Roosevelt and the paternal grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt. She married Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., and had four children. She was a descendent of...

Date of birth:

  • Jul 8, 1835

Date of death:

  • Feb 14, 1884 (age 48 years)

Casey Johnson

Casey Johnson is a great-great-granddaughter of Robert Wood Johnson, a co-founder of Johnson & Johnson. She is the first cousin of Jamie Johnson who directed the documentary Born Rich. Johnson is known as the "Band-Aid Princess". She was diagnosed...

Date of birth:

  • Sep 24, 1979

Date of death:

  • Jan 4, 2010 (age 30 years)

Sarita Stella

Sarita Stella-Holland (born 31 July 1982) is an Australian promo model turned socialite. Sarita was raised in the northern outskirts of Melbourne and attended Holy Child Primary School in Dallas. As a model, she was featured in a Dodo internet ad....

Date of birth:

  • Jul 31, 1982 (age 27 years)

Raine de Chambrun

Raine Spencer, Dowager Countess Spencer (born 9 September 1929) is a British socialite and politician. She is the daughter of novelist Barbara Cartland and Alexander McCorquodale. At aged 23, she became the youngest member of Westminster City...

Date of birth:

  • Sep 9, 1929 (age 80 years)

Brody Jenner

Sam Brody Jenner (born August 21, 1983) is an American reality television personality. He is also the son of gold medal Olympic decathlete Bruce Jenner. In 2005, Jenner starred in The Princes of Malibu alongside his brother Brandon and then-best...

Date of birth:

  • Aug 21, 1983 (age 26 years)

Anne Lynch Botta

Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (November 11, 1815 – March 23, 1891) was an American poet, writer, teacher and socialite whose home was the central gathering place of the literary elite of her era. She was born Anne Charlotte Lynch in Bennington, Vermont...

Date of birth:

  • Nov 11, 1815

Date of death:

  • Mar 23, 1891 (age 75 years)

Teresa Cheung

Teresa Cheung (Chinese: 章小蕙) is a Hong Kong socialite, actress and producer. She is the former wife of Kenny Bee, with whom she has two children. Cheung was born in Hong Kong and is of Shanghainese origin. After relocating to Canada, she studied at...

Date of birth:

  • May 31, 1963 (age 46 years)

Helen Hope Montgomery Scott

Helen Hope Montgomery Scott (1904 - January 9, 1995) was a socialite and philanthropist who Vanity Fair once called "the unofficial queen of Philadelphia's WASP oligarchy." She is most famous as the inspiration for Tracy Lord, the main character in...

Date of birth:

  • 1904

Date of death:

  • Jan 9, 1995 (age 91 years)

Susan Bottomly

Susan Bottomly (born 1950), also known as International Velvet, is a former American model and actress. She is known for her appearances in several of Andy Warhol's underground films. Born in Boston, Susan is the daughter of John Bottomly, a lawyer...

Date of birth:

  • 1950 (age 60 years)

Anne Hearst

Anne Randolph Hearst is an American socialite and publishing heiress. Hearst is one of the five daughters of Randolph Apperson Hearst (1917-2000) and his first wife, the former Catherine Wood Campbell. Patricia Hearst, who was kidnapped in 1974 by...

Rob Kardashian

Robert George "Rob" Kardashian, Jr. (born March 17, 1987) is an American celebutante, television personality, model, singer, and socialite. He is best known for his role on the reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Of Armenian (father),...

Date of birth:

  • Mar 17, 1987 (age 22 years)

Kris Jenner

Kristen "Kris" Kardashian Jenner (born Kristen Mary Houghton; November 5, 1955) is an American television personality, socialite, and businesswoman, as well as manager for daughter Kim Kardashian and wife of businessman, and former athlete Bruce...

Date of birth:

  • Nov 5, 1955 (age 54 years)

Tony Buffery

Tony Buffery is a British actor, comedian, and writer – apart from having a career in academic psychology. Buffery got his start in the Cambridge Footlights, but his place in the London Footlights Revue was taken over by Graham Chapman (later of...

Caroline D' Amore

Caroline D'Amore (born July 9, 1984) is an American model, actress, and socialite. She has made appearances in films such as Day Dreamer, Ghost Game, The Clinic, and Sorority Row. She has her own swimwear line collection called D'Amore by Marceau,...

Date of birth:

  • Jul 9, 1984 (age 25 years)

Gale Benson

Gale Ann Benson (4 November 1944 – 2 January 1972) was a British model, socialite, and daughter of Conservative MP Leonard Plugge. She was buried alive and murdered in Trinidad by local men including Black Power activist Michael X. Benson was born...

Date of birth:

  • Nov 4, 1944

Date of death:

  • Jan 2, 1972 (age 27 years)

Olivia Palermo

Olivia Toledo Palermo (born February 28, 1986) is an American socialite and on the cast of the reality show The City. The daughter of Douglas Palermo and Lynn Hutchings, Palermo grew up between the Upper East Side, New York and Greenwich,...

Date of birth:

  • Feb 28, 1986 (age 23 years)

Barron Hilton II

Barron Nicholas Hilton II (born November 7, 1989 in New York City, New York) is an American socialite, celebutante, and heir. He is best known for being Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton's younger brother. His parents are former actress Kathy Hilton and...

Date of birth:

  • Nov 7, 1989 (age 20 years)

Conrad Hughes Hilton

Conrad Hughes Hilton III (born March 3, 1994 in New York City, New York) is an American heir. Hilton is the son of real-estate broker Richard Hilton and actress Kathy Hilton. He is the younger brother of Paris, Nicky, and Barron Hilton. Hilton's...

Date of birth:

  • Mar 3, 1994 (age 15 years)

Scott Disick

Scott Disick is an American television personality and socialite known for his appearances on the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Disick grew up in Eastport, New York. He attended a private school in East Hampton, New York...

Rosalea Krakovski-Jughashvili

Rosalea Krakovski-Jughashvili (Russian Роза Краковски) (born February 15, 1984) is a Russian-American scientist. She claims to be a descendant of Joseph Stalin, former totalitarian dictator of the [[USSR]. Rosalea was born in Cambridge, United...

Rena Kirdar Sindi

Rena Kirdar Sindi (born 1969) is an Iraqi author, socialite and party hostess. Sindi was born in Baghdad and spent part of her childhood in the Persian Gulf region, where her father the Iraqi billionaire, Nemir A. Kirdar, who founded the merchant...

Date of birth:

  • 1969 (age 41 years)

Andrea colognoli

Andrea Colognoli (born December 23, 1986) is an English Socialite, originally from Milan, Italy. Andrea comes from a wealthy family and he is mostly known for his frequent red carpet appearances and celebrity friends. He currently resides in London,...

Date of birth:

  • Dec 23, 1986 (age 23 years)

Lauren Santo Domingo

Date of birth:

  • Feb 28, 1976 (age 33 years)

Marjorie Gubelmann

Date of birth:

  • Apr 11, 1969 (age 40 years)

Murder of Jasmine Fiore

The murder of Jasmine Fiore occurred on August 15, 2009. Fiore (born Jasmine Lepore) was a model from Santa Cruz, California, United States. Her body was discovered on August 15, 2009, strangled and stuffed into a suitcase. Her remains had been...

Ronnie Joice

Ronnie Joice is an English DJ, musician and socialite. He is best known for his propulsive and engaging sets on the centre stage of the UK’s hipper than thou club scene. Joice regularly can be found entertaining the likes of Agyness Deyn, Dizzee...
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