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Show A Isabel Patino and James Goldsmith. 1 Jacqueline Hart and Stanley Gaines. , 2 Gamble Benedict. ? . - O Barbara .:: : '- ; t . " i Biilingsley - t tt . " - ana jonn wirraonerij- I- - X h 5- - Bobo Sigrist (ij) I C u .1. I T' irvv 1 VV-- y I - :vi- wfb-J- -r v A3 i i J III AY Tessa Kennedy and Dominic Elwes. Sv- - ai - yrj 1 6 II, and Gregg Juarez. (v LJ - . X 10A Run Away A By BOB DRISCOLL 3 r'i Kv:- - ts Their life isn't all champagne and mink; inside theqeerrant heiresses is a hidden fear, and when it becomes too much, headlines and heartaches result always make succulent tidbits Errant So when Gamble Benedict, well-to-Remington typewriter heiress, and New Jersey Jacqueline Gay Hart, rich ciRLS 19-year-- old . do 21-year- -old in recent months, they both made headlines all over the country. As their stories unfolded, wealthy and asked: "What makes rich girls run away?" "Gambi" Benedict, for example, fled to Europe chauffeur, with Andre Porumbeanu, a child. of a still married and the father young told the other on hand, police she had been Gay, kidnaped and held for ransom for 50 hours, then later confessed that she had "sort of exploded" at the prospect of marriage and had simply run off. Gamble and Gay made news, all right but old news. As errant heiresses, they were playing timer d, parts. worn, though not Take Nancy Oakes, for instance. The daughter of millionaire Sir Harry Oakes, whose murder remains one of the world's great unsolved not-so-weal- 35-year-- . old time-honore- bld thy crimes (family weekly, Nov. 1, 1959), ran away, ' some 15 years ago under conditions paralleling affair. She marthose of the Benedict-Porumbea"Count" Alfred de Marigny who, ried twice-we- d 4ikeAndrejjwasallegedly a penniless European' adventurer. Their marriage lasted seven years before it ended in annulment De Marigny ended up without a penny of Nancy's inheritance. More recently, but just as dramatically, Tessa Kennedy, the wealthy goddaughter of the Duchess of Kent, eloped with Dominic Elwes, son of a portrait painter, after a heralded intercontinental game of with her parof defiance ents and the open several court injunctions. As a result, Dominic landed a jail term, but the marriage stuck. heirBlonde, beautiful Bobo Sigrist, ess to a aircraft fortune, led her mother's detectives a merry chase before she was able to escape with Gregg Juarez, interior ' - decorator. were married in l 1957hu a civil! and later in a church ceremony. But by ceremony nu back April of the next year, Bobo had gone weeping ' to mother with an infant daughter. debutante Eileen Herrick, in 1939 a starry-eye- d barely 19, weathered similar restraining efforts by private detectives as well as confinement, to a hospital "for observation" and virtual house arrest to run off and marry George Lowther in 1940. Six in years later, however, her vows were terminated the divorce courts. 19-year- -old cat-and-mo- use 18-year-- old $20-milli- on 34-year-- old tin deeply tragic courtship involved Bolivian on heiress Isabel Patino She was whisked off a hurried trip by her mother and father to "save her from Jimmy Goldsmith, son of a London hotel man. After successfully sidetracking the marriage and by court injunctions, Patino wearily relented, the couple was married in a small French village. Isabel died five and a half months later of a brain hemorrhage as she delivered a ' premature child. Hostilities between Goldsmith and Patino erupted again in a bitter battle for custody of the child. Other wealthy runaways have included Lebnore (Continued on page &l ; Family Weekly, March 20, I960 Jet. |