Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney - The Cushing Sisters

The Cushing Sisters

As a result of their mother's coaching to marry well, all three Cushing sisters married into wealth and prominence:

  • Minnie Cushing, her older sister, married Vincent Astor, the heir of a $200 million fortune, in 1940. She later divorced Astor and married artist James Whitney Fosburgh.
  • Her younger sister Barbara "Babe" Cushing was first married to Standard Oil heir Stanley Mortimer, Jr., before divorcing him and marrying CBS founder William S. Paley. She was short-listed as one of the world's best-dressed women by distinguished designers such as Mainbocher, and was a doyenne of New York society.

Both of Betsey's sisters died of cancer within months of each other in 1978, twenty years before Betsey died.

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