A Mexican billionaire was tricked into lending $400 million to a group of con artists — one of whom passed himself off as a ...

He called himself Gregory Mitchell and worked for what looked like an Astor family fund. But who was he really?

As a youngster, John Jacob Astor worked for his father as a dairy salesman. He had three brothers, the eldest of whom, George, left home to work for an uncle in London who made musical instruments ...

“Astor” sketches how subsequent generations either built on or frittered away the family’s initial fortune. It ends with the elder abuse case of Brooke Astor in the 2000s.

The Astor family once epitomized the American dream, dominated New York City, and wielded immense social power; However, this once influential name has since fallen from grace.

A gold watch worn by John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the wealthy Astor family and the richest man aboard the Titanic, sold for a record-breaking £1.175 million ($1.485 million) at auction on ...

Astor's family is mired in a bitter feud over her multimillion-dollar estate. Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward, who has written about the Astor family, talks with Madeleine Brand.

In "Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune," CNN journalist Anderson Cooper and his co-writer Katherine Howe trace the famous family's legacy from its beginning, when John Jacob Astor ...

(CNN) — A gold watch worn by John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the wealthy Astor family and the richest man aboard the Titanic, will go up for sale at an auction of memorabilia from the doomed ship.