: a woman who is an heir especially to great wealth
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Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, gained notoriety for posing as a German heiress and used her social standing to swindle and defraud wealthy people, banks and hotels.
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Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
The Colombian heiress had problems of her own, obviously.
—Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
But what wasn’t reported at the time was that Hilton and her entrepreneur husband, Carter Reum, reportedly took out a mortgage on the home, which might seem like an unusual move for the 44-year-old hotel heiress.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
That was the working title for a film Brown was going to apparently direct about the Symbionese Liberation Army’s infamous 1974 kidnapping of media heiress Patty Hearst.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
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Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
The Colombian heiress had problems of her own, obviously.
—Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
But what wasn’t reported at the time was that Hilton and her entrepreneur husband, Carter Reum, reportedly took out a mortgage on the home, which might seem like an unusual move for the 44-year-old hotel heiress.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
That was the working title for a film Brown was going to apparently direct about the Symbionese Liberation Army’s infamous 1974 kidnapping of media heiress Patty Hearst.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Heiress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heiress. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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heiress
noun
heir·ess
ˈar-əs 
ˈer-
: a girl or woman who is an heir
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