MILLIONAIRE’S FORTUNE
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Do you remember "Peaches” Browning? asks the New York correspondent of°the “Sunday Chronicle.” She was the “Cinderella girl” who, at the age of 16, married “Daddy Browning, eccentric American millionaire, 11 years ago. “Peaches” is to-day one of lour women who are fighting for the £2,000,000 “Daddy” Browning left. They are:— “Peaches” Browning, to-day a glamorous blonde. Mrs. Nellie Adele Browning, the millionaire’s first wife. Mrs. Dorothy (“Sunshine’) Browning Hood, adopted daughter of “Daddy,” aged 22, and Miss Marjorie Browning, aged -1, another adopted daughter.
“Daddy” Browning, who had a collection of 3,000,000 letters from girls, showered gifts upon “Peaches.” He allowed her to spend at the rate of £2OO a day, and gave her magnificent limousines. After six months “Daddy ’ announced that the marriage had never been a real one; that “Peaches slept in a room with her mother the whole time. He separated from her. Just before her marriage to the millionaire “Peaches” was attacked while she was sleeping. Someone threw acid over her face and an expensive operation was needed to restore her beauty.
It is said that legal proceedings now beginning over “Daddy’s” will may throw new light on this mysterious attack.
Favourite in the battle is “Sunshine,” because “Daddy” on his deathbed added a codicil to the will, providing her with £2OOO a year until .she becomes of age and afterwards £5OOO a year for life. Her closest rival is “Peaches.” As widow, she claims she is entitled to at least one-third of the money. Mrs. Nellie Adele Browning, the first wife, seemed to have a formidable chance, but it is stated that in consideration of an annual income she waived all her wifely rights.
“Dark horse” in the race is little Marjorie Browning, who says she is entitled to the fortune as “Daddy’s” adopted child. New York lawyers are now awaiting the order to open the legal battle for the millions.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 160, 3 April 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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323MILLIONAIRE’S FORTUNE Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 160, 3 April 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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