Family
McFadden is the only daughter of Alexander Bloomfield McFadden, a cotton broker, and her mother was the former Mary Josephine Cutting, a socialite and concert pianist. Her father died in 1948, when he was killed in an avalanche while climbing in the Rocky Mountains. She is a descendant of Robert Fulton, the steamboat pioneer.
She has two brothers, George, who died in April 2008 after a plane he was on crashed into Toledo Bend Reservoir,Texas, and John McFadden, and two half-brothers, Watson B. and Wolcott R. Blair.
McFadden's stepfather is the investment banker Watson K. Blair.
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