From left: Alice Jones and Leonard Kip Rhinelander
From the November issue: 1924: Rhinelander heir seeks annulment
A scion of one of Manhattan’s wealthiest real estate families filed to annul his marriage 89 years ago this month, claiming his wife had concealed the fact that she was biracial from him.
Leonard Kip Rhinelander — an heir to a fortune concentrated on the Upper East Side that was estimated in 1908 to be worth about $50 million — married a domestic worker named Alice Jones. [more]