Hetty Green: Witch Of Wall Street Or Feminine Finance Icon? - Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Hetty Green: Witch Of Wall Street Or Feminine Finance Icon? Hetty single-handedly accumulated somewhere between $100 to $200 million—or $2 to $5 billion today. SHARE ON: Photos courtesy of Library of Congress A woman of both surly demeanor and stock market savvy, Hetty Green rose to the top of the male-dominated world of finance to amass a fortune worth as much as $3.8 billion today, making her the wealthiest woman of the Gilded Age. Hetty’s staunch frugality and questionable hygiene ...
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