Socialite Madeleine Astor was 18 years old and five months pregnant when she boarded the RMS 'Titanic.' Here's the story of what led to her journey—and how she survived it.

John Jacob Astor left Madeleine — who gave birth to their son John Jacob Astor VI that August — $100,000 (worth over $2.75 million today), his home on Fifth Avenue, and a $5 million trust fund.

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

Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her in Lifeboat 4, but his apogeal social status and family fortune — born of the fur trade, then turbocharged by New York real ...

John Jacob Astor IV, the wealthiest passenger on the Titanic, perished in the disaster while his pregnant wife, Madeleine, survived. The couple's significant age difference and Astor's recent ...

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. The Palm Beach connection.

An often-forgotten survivor of the Titanic was John Jacob “Jakey” Astor VI, the “Titanic Baby,” who was in his mother’s womb when the ship sank, and his father perished in the wreck, on ...

John Jacob Astor IV's gold pocket watch that was recovered from his body after the Titanic sank has sold for a record total of nearly $1.5 million. (Henry Aldridge & Son LTD / Fox News) ...

A pocket watch that belonged to the wealthiest passenger aboard the Titanic is up for auction and could sell for as much as 150,000 pounds, or nearly $190,000. The auction for John Jacob Astor IV ...