Did William Hearst Have a Goddaughter?

Violet Hayward is John Moore's fiancé and the godchild of the newspapers magnate William Randolph Hearst.

Did Marion Davies inherit anything from Hearst?

Davies, ever the wise investor, sold her Ocean House in 1945 during a property tax dispute; it is now known as the Marion Davies Guest House. All this means that Davies had plenty of her own money when Hearst died and left her much of his fortune. She “sold her inheritance for $1 back to Hearst Corporation.

Who did Violet Hearst marry?

She retired from the screen in 1937 to devote herself to an ailing Hearst and charitable work. In Hearst's declining years, Davies remained his steadfast companion until his death in 1951. Eleven weeks after Hearst's death, she married sea captain Horace Brown.

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