Braeden joined the soap in 1980 as Victor Newman before appearing as John Jacob Astor IV in the 1997 hit film Filming Titanic ...

As one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age dynasties, the Astor family's money and influence still make waves.

Costume drama The Gilded Age may seem soapy and dramatic, but its historical inspirations were just as scandalous.

Madeleine and John Jacob Astor IV, considered among the richest man in the world during the Gilded Age, departing from the Astor mansion in New York in 1911.

John Jacob Astor IV was one of the wealthiest people in the world when he perished in the Titanic sinking. His life was marked by amazing innovations and wealth, but scandal as well. Astor's wife, who ...

The story of the Astor family is one of immense fortune, ambition, tragedy, and scandal. It all began with John Jacob Astor, an immigrant from modern-day Germany who arrived in the United States in ...

After escorting his pregnant second wife to a lifeboat, coolly waving to her as the boat was lowered to the calm sea, jaunty, mustachioed Colonel John Jacob Astor IV went down with the unsinkable ...

Named after John Jacob Astor, an important New York entrepreneur and founder of both the American Fur and the Pacific Fur Companies, the completed fort consisted of the factor's residence, a powder ...

Mrs Astor’s husband John Jacob Astor IV was the richest man aboard the Titanic, famously depicted in James Cameron’s 1997 film “Titanic.” He managed to get his pregnant wife into a ...

John Jacob Astor built his fortune in the fur business and New York real estate. John Jacob Astor III and William Backhouse Astor Jr. cofounded the Waldorf-Astoria after a feud.

Gold Pocket Watch That Belonged to Richest Man on Titanic Shatters Auction Records: Selling for $1.2m USD.