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😉 Welcome new and regular readers! On this site, under the heading “Stories of Famous People”, we will meet not only positive characters, but also negative ones. Such a person is Henrietta Green – the meanest woman in the world!
Henrietta Green became famous all over the world for her terrible stinginess and money-grubbing. But what is unique is that she was also the richest woman in the world in 1916!
Getty Green
Henrietta Robinson was born in 1834 to an American Quaker family. She started reading financial newspapers at the age of 6. Her father died in 1865. Getty inherited 7,5 mil. dollars (107 million dollars in terms of 2010). Despite the family’s objections, she invested them in bonds.
Then her aunt died. She bequeathed about a million dollars to her niece. Getty met multimillionaire Edward Green, as they say – “money for money”, and married him. The spouses conducted financial affairs separately.
Great financier
Having given birth to a son, Ned, and a daughter, Sylvia, Getty felt that she had completely gotten back on her debts with God and humanity. She, with a clear conscience, plunged headlong into financial and investment activities.
She bought stocks and bonds of the most promising companies. Financed state and municipal projects. She lent to some banks and ruined others by simply closing her accounts.
The country’s financial newspapers tracked Getty’s every move, making long-term predictions based solely on the results of her financial transactions.
After the Great Stock Exchange Panic of 1907, Getty Green became the only Wall Street financier with free capital. This allowed it to entangle almost all the largest traders and exchange players with debt obligations.
Henrietta Green was an incredibly mean woman. She constantly wore the same clothes. An unadorned black dress and a black hat.
Her husband was even more of a gambler on the stock exchange. As a result, he went bankrupt. Henrietta did not want to help her husband and pay his debts. They separated
She did not have her own home. Getty didn’t want to pay property tax. She lived in boarding houses, ate sandwiches with stale bread.
One day her son broke his leg. His mother dressed him in rags and took him to the hospital for the poor. She didn’t want to pay for the treatment. The doctor still recognized her and told her to pay for medical services. Getty stingy and decided to treat her son on her own. Unfortunately, nothing came of it. Ned developed gangrene. The leg was amputated.
Henrietta Greene died of stroke during an argument with a maid over the merits of skim milk. She was 80 years old. Henrietta Green’s name is entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the meanest woman in the world.
And money? How did the children dispose of them?
The son, as if in memory of the two-cent stamp, because of which his mother spent a sleepless night under the table, took up philately. He lavishly paid a million dollars for rare centimeter by centimeter pieces of paper.
Ned bought an insanely expensive yacht. Then another one. Then he married a prostitute. He was a great guy, kind, generous, loving.
After Ned’s death, the money was inherited by Getty’s daughter, Sylvia. She, too, did not speculate on Wall Street, because she was a shy woman and devoted her whole life to charity.
When Sylvia bequeathed her fortune to friends, distant relatives and shelters, her mother would surely have turned over in her grave!
In 1951, the Wall Street Witch’s financial empire ceased to exist. Here’s a story. The son could be cured, not brought to the amputation of the leg.
What kind of mother’s heart did this woman have? Money has always come first. For the sake of big money, she lived all her life in poverty, denying herself everything? This is pathological stinginess, like Gogol’s Plyushkin.
Quotes about stinginess
- “Avarice is something other than the painstaking art of making wealth poor, power and reputation shameful, life pitiful, death terrible, and heirs ungrateful without guilt.”
- “The avaricious denies himself the necessary in order to provide himself with the excess in the future, which will never come” J. Say
- “It is foolish to be greedy in old age, like a traveler who keeps increasing his supplies for the road, getting closer and closer to the end.” Cicero
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