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The darker side of the Gilded Age

Pearls, petticoats…and plenty of courtroom drama. In this episode of The Gilded Heiresses, we pull back the velvet curtain on the darker side of America's Gilded Age: the scandalous divorces, ruinous affairs, and shattered reputations that lurked beneath the glittering surface of New York high society. From Alva Vanderbilt's jaw-dropping divorce settlem…

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