Definition of heiress
:a woman who is an heir especially to great wealth
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The 13-bedroom waterfront home, at 235 Middle Neck Road in Sands Point, was once owned by Mary Harriman Rumsey, a railroad heiress whose brother, W. Averell Harriman, was governor of New York.
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On Thursday, the hotel heiress issued an apology to US Weekly.
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Jeremy Meeks and Topshop heiress Chloe Green showed some PDA on their getaway to Barbados on Saturday.
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The only people hired at that moment were Edie Baskin, the ice cream heiress, and James Signorelli, who did all the parody commercials and the original title sequence.
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In it, a villainous Charles Boyer woos and wins a young heiress (Ingrid Bergman) to gain access to her aunt’s London townhouse.
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Lauren King Thompson, who plays a wealthy heiress and a scheming social climber, among others, has a memorable duet with the superb Chaz Feuerstine, whose characters include an ambitious reporter and an amusingly excitable police inspector.
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The cast this year includes Elettra Lamborghini, the car heiress granddaughter of Ferruccio Lamborghini, who will welcome the global cast to her homeland.
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A devious maid, Sookee (Kim Tae-ri), worms her way into the employment of a beautiful young heiress, Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee), who is being held hostage in a mansion by her uncle (Cho Jin-woong), who intends to marry her for her fortune.
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