The King of Armaments

Basil Zedd married his Duchess after nearly 40 years together, because her husband died in that Asana asylum. But she didn't outlive him for very long and this basically spelled the end for Basil. There's no way to know how much money he was really worth, but his liquid known assets at death were only around a million modern dollars. The King of Armaments survived until 1936, but over the next decade, he grew sicker and less mobile. He died sick and marginalized, with his vast fortune much depleted.