Margaret Phipps Boegner (November 17, 1906 – September 16, 2006) was an American heiress and philanthropist.
[1] Her father was John Shaffer Phipps (1874–1958) and her mother, Margarita Celia Grace (1876-1957).
[1] After her parents' deaths in 1957 and 1958, she developed the Old Westbury Gardens and decided to open her family residence to the public.
[1] In 1951, she married Etienne Boegner, a French businessman and diplomat, and the son of Marc Boegner (1881–1970), a prominent member of the French Resistance and the first President of the Protestant Federation of France.
[1] On June 30, 2010, some of her jewels were sold in an auction house in East Moriches, New York.