Mollie Wilmot

[2] Wilmot divided her time between an apartment at The Pierre in Manhattan, an oceanfront mansion next to the Kennedy estate stretching along prestigious North Ocean Blvd.

on Palm Beach, Florida and a sprawling colonial property in Saratoga Springs, New York, boasting to The Times Union in 1998 that she had been born at the Ritz Hotel in Paris "feet first, six weeks early and with all my eyelashes.

The wedding, which took place at her home in Chicago, was performed by Judge Julius Hoffman and the best man was New York attorney Roy Cohn.

Wilmot's staff served the sailors sandwiches and freshly brewed coffee in her gazebo and showered martinis upon journalists and photographers.

[6][7] In her role as society hostess, Wilmot hosted an annual Sotheby's cocktail party to benefit equine research at Cornell University.