REVEALED: The outcast socialite name-checked in Taylor Swift's new album was heir to an oil fortune who filled a pool Taylor Swift’s home in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, which was previously owned by Rebekah Harkness. Like her own mother, Rebekah was emotionally distant. Their Rhode Island estate, Holiday House, was the site of some raucous Gatsby-esque parties: Blue Blood recalls that Harkness once filled her pool with Dom Perignon (which, oddly, was not the only liberty she took with libations: it’s also said she put scotch in her fish tank). Su matrimonio con William Hale "Bill" Harkness, abogado y heredero de la fortuna Standard Oil de William L. Harkness, la convirtió en una de las mujeres más ricas de Estados Unidos Scott Disick, 37, goes house hunting in LA with new girlfriend Amelia Gray Hamlin, 19, touring $115M mansion Salinger and Salvador Dali. I can’t believe it took her this long to succeed.’. He was 15 years her senior but the two married in a private ceremony attended by her two children and William’s daughter from his first marriage – Elizabeth ‘Buffy’ Grant Montgomery, (she grew up and married the actor Robert Montgomery and was mother to actress Elizabeth Montgomery). The Harkness's Rhode Island home, Holiday House, became a hub for the social set in the town, as the couple threw raucous parties most weekends. She met William Hale Harkness, the dashing heir to the Standard Oil empire in 1947 while summering at her parent’s vacation home in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. It’s hard not to hear the lyric, “Rebekah gave up on the Rhode Island set forever,” as Swift’s own feelings toward my home state. Together, the pair resided in Rhode Island, in a home called "Holiday House" that Swift now owns. In her day, Harkness was as much of a media darling as Swift is now, and often the target of unfavorable headlines and press coverage. The Harkness couple purchased a waterfront mansion in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, which the two nicknamed the "Holiday House." Iyengar and her pet raccoon. Rebekah Harkness, storia della ... Standard Oil la rese infatti una delle più ricche donne d'America. Bryan... Armed anti-lockdown protesters storm Oregon State Capitol building during special session shouting 'We just want our rights back!' ¡Gracias por ser suscriptor! Betty Harkness, the previous owner of Taylor Swift’s house in Rhode Island. She wrote in her scrapbook that she set out to ‘do everything bad.’. ‘Her son Allen says the years he spent in prison were the happiest of his life. “Little by little, Holiday House, as the Watch Hill Estate was called, began to acquire the character of Rebekah’s private living room. She jumped off roofs and overdosed on pills and lived through both events. Rebekah bought a mansion on New York’s Upper East Side and turned it into a posh training center for dancers called Harkness House. But equally unapologetic as Swift. Rebekah was a beautiful, talented, divorcee originally from St. Louis, and her husband, William Hale Harkness, was heir to the Standard Oil fortune. This content is imported from Twitter. By Reuters and Storyful•December 21, 2020 The folks at the funeral home couldn’t fit all of Harkness’ ashes in the $250,000 custom urn made by Salvador Dalí. She killed her goldfish by filling the tank with scotch and took pleasure in moving massive amounts of money between bank accounts in order to confuse her accountants. The couple married in 1947 and purchased the seaside Rhode Island home that Taylor now owns and named it ‘Holiday House.’ De acuerdo a un artículo publicado, en 1988, por New York Times, la casa era famosa porque Rebekah la adecuó con ocho cocinas y 21 baños, desconociéndose si Taylor aún conserva esa distribución. EXCLUSIVE: Keeping up with the Kardashians! She married William Hale Harkness, heir to the Standard Oil fortune, in 1947, and a year later, as Swift writes, “They picked out a home and called it ‘Holiday House’ / Their parties were tasteful, if a little loud / The doctor had told him to settle down / It must have been her fault his heart gave out.” Image credit: Wikipedia. Rebekah Harkness became one of the wealthiest women in America after she inherited her husband’s vast Standard Oil fortune when he died in 1953. She also spiked the punch at her sister’s debutante ball with mineral oil. 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Swifts lyrics read: ‘Bill was the heir to the Standard Oil name and money/ And the town said, ‘How did a middle-class divorcée do it?’/ The wedding was charming, if a little gauche / There’s only so far new money goes / They picked out a home and called it ‘Holiday House.”. She also spiked the punch at her sister’s debutante ball with mineral oil. On any given morning when she and I had something to talk about, Rebekah would come down in her pink and blue leotards and literally stand on her head, and we would have the conversation with her standing on her head. The Harknesses shared a HUGE Watch Hill, Rhode Island mansion, called the Holiday House, that featured eight kitchens and 21 baths. Rebekah was a beautiful, talented, divorcee originally from St. Louis, and her husband, William Hale Harkness, was heir to the Standard Oil fortune. 'We just want our rights back! just seven years, Harkness is most well known the. 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