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.

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 ...

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

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.

A major part of our ongoing fascination has been Titanic’s A-list travelers, including John Jacob Astor IV and his young second wife, Madeleine.

This photograph shows the interior of Astor's home at 840 Fifth Avenue in 1912. His wife, Madeleine, survived the Titanic disaster. It was announced in 1924 that the home would be razed for an ...

In “The Second Mrs. Astor,” best-selling author Shana Abe draws an intimate portrait of John Jacob Astor IV as seen through the eyes of his second wife, Madeleine Force Astor. This is ...