It was the early-morning hours of April 15, 1912, and a lifeboat was being lowered from the doomed Titanic barely a third full.

The home, one of 143 new branded residences, will also have a guest casita, open ocean views and easy access to shared ...

The wealthy owners of Staatsburgh, a historic Gilded Age mansion outside New York City, had tickets for the Titanic's second ...

Ruth and Ogden wed in 1882 and had three children. The room also featured ... Ruth's cousin, John Jacob Astor, was the richest man in the world when he died in the Titanic disaster.

Some of the wealthiest people in the world were on board, including property tycoon John Jacob Astor IV, great grandson of John Jacob Astor, founder of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Millionaire ...

In a previous sale, the same auction house sold a pocket watch recovered from John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest man on board the Titanic, for GBP 900,000 (₹9.4 crore INR). Though less opulent ...

In that case, the 14-carat object belonged to the wealthiest passenger on the Titanic, John Jacob Astor, whose net worth was around $87 million when the disaster happened in 1912, according to the ...