Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and TaxisW
Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis

Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, is a German aristocrat, businessman, and race car driver. He has been listed as the world's youngest billionaire many times since his father's death in 1990, first appearing on the list when he was age eight.

Frédéric Prinz von AnhaltW
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt

Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt is a German-American businessman best known as the last husband and widower of Zsa Zsa Gabor. He took on his new name in 1980, after Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt adopted him as an adult.

Marie Charlotte BlancW
Marie Charlotte Blanc

Marie Charlotte Blanc was a German socialite and businesswoman. She was a prominent member of high society in Monaco and France. After the death of her husband, François Blanc, she operated the Monte Carlo Casino.

Claus von BülowW
Claus von Bülow

Claus von Bülow was a Danish-born British lawyer, consultant and socialite. In 1982, he was initially convicted of both the attempted murder of his wife Sunny von Bülow in 1979, which had left her in a temporary coma, as well as an alleged insulin overdose in 1980 that left her in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life. On appeal, however, both convictions were reversed, and he was found not guilty at his second trial.

Daisy, Princess of PlessW
Daisy, Princess of Pless

Daisy, Princess of Pless was a noted society beauty in the Edwardian period, and during her marriage a member of one of the wealthiest European noble families. Daisy and her husband Hans Heinrich XV were the owners of large estates and coal mines in Silesia which brought the Hochbergs enormous fortune.

Prince Egon von FürstenbergW
Prince Egon von Fürstenberg

Prince Egon von Fürstenberg was a socialite, banker, fashion and interior designer, and member of the German aristocratic family Fürstenberg.

Ira von FürstenbergW
Ira von Fürstenberg

Princess Virginia von Fürstenberg, known professionally as Ira von Fürstenberg, is a European socialite, actress, jewelry designer and former public relations manager for the fashion designer Valentino Garavani. She is a member by birth of the princely family of Fürstenberg and a former member by marriage of the princely family of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

Gloria, Princess of Thurn and TaxisW
Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis

Gloria, Dowager Princess of Thurn and Taxis is a German socialite, businesswoman, philanthropist, Catholic activist, and artist. Through her marriage to Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, she became the Princess Consort of Thurn und Taxis.

Ottilie von GoetheW
Ottilie von Goethe

Baroness Ottilie Wilhelmine Ernestine Henriette von Goethe was a German socialite and the daughter-in-law of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Amalia von HelvigW
Amalia von Helvig

Anna Amalia von Helvig was a German and Swedish artist, writer, translator, socialite, Salonist and culture personality. She is known as an inspiration for many artists. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

Friede SpringerW
Friede Springer

Friede Springer is a German publisher and widow of Axel Springer. She is the main owner of the Axel Springer SE media conglomerate, and thus of Europe's largest newspaper Bild, and one of the richest people of Germany.

Elisabeth von Thurn und TaxisW
Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

Princess Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis is a German journalist, author, socialite, and art collector. By birth, she is a member of the German princely House of Thurn and Taxis. Since 2012 Elisabeth has worked as a style editor-at-large for Vogue. A Catholic traditionalist, she has written as a columnist for Vatican Magazine and authored a book on Catholic spirituality called The Faith of Children: in Praise of the People's Devotion. She has been referred to in the press as Princess TNT, a nickname once associated with her mother, Gloria, Princess of Thurn und Taxis.

Caroline VreelandW
Caroline Vreeland

Caroline Olivia Zickerick, known professionally as Caroline Vreeland, is a German-American singer-songwriter, actress, columnist, and model.

Hans Hermann WeyerW
Hans Hermann Weyer

Hans Hermann Consul Weyer, Graf von Yorck is a German trader in nobility and academics titles, and a flamboyant member of the international jet set. He is a honorary consul of Bolivia in Luxembourg and who became known in the 1960s for selling certificates of nobility, doctoral degrees from colleges and universities, and other decorations in Germany. Described in 1982 by John Vinocur of The New York Times as "a Munich who sold titles" to "used-car dealers hungry for respectability", Weyer is given credit for Hans Lichtenberg's adoption in the latter's biographical profile in the cast list of the 2005 German reality-television program "Die Burg". Lichtenberg then married Zsa Zsa Gabor. According to the newspaper Rhein-Zeitung, Weyer was adopted as an adult, in 1996, by a Countess of Yorck, a 78-year-old noblewoman, and now uses the name Consul Weyer Graf von Yorck.

Sylvie von ZiegesarW
Sylvie von Ziegesar

Baroness Sylvie von Ziegesar was a German noblewoman active in the intellectual circles of Weimar Classicism. She was a friend of the painter Louise Seidler and the intellectual Pauline Gotter, and was also the subject of Goethe's poem "To Sylvie von Ziegesar".