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Jacob Astor, the Richest Man in the United States
Have you ever heard the story of Jacob Astor? He was one of the richest men in the entire United States. The day before the Titanic goes off, the JP Morgan's, their whole family, all their crew, decided they're not going to go on that trip anymore. The Astors died. And after the Titanic fell, after the Titanic sunk, the news in America was not that the Titanic sunk. It was that Jacob Astor died. You don't hear about it. Most people, if you think of Waldo for Storia, the hotel group, that's from Jacob Astor's family. They're like old money. So old money, old legacy, old