Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alva Belmont, then WK Vanderbilt’s wife, costumed for a fancy dress ball which she gave in March of 1883.Bettmann/Getty Images ...

NEWPORT – George Russell survived the Season 3 finale of "The Gilded Age," but is his marriage to Bertha long for this world? Not if the experience of the real-life socialite on whom Bertha is based ...

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, Newport’s Gilded Age socialite, evolves into ardent suffragette. March is Women’s History Month and we salute Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, a grand dame of the Gilded Age who ...

CHMNK copy 39088019486596 Donated by Jack Gray in honor of Nina Gray. When Consuelo's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, ...

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. She built palatial residences on "Millionaires' Row" in New York and in Newport, Rhode Island. In ...