Milton Petrie, a billionaire from New York, was known for his generosity. He bought newspapers from street corners and paid for hospital bills and funerals for people he knew. He sent cheques to families of injured policemen, mothers, and models. Despite the financial burden, Petrie believed in his luck and wanted to help those less fortunate. He died in 1994 at 92, leaving $150 million to 383 people. His wife, Carol, credits his generosity to his early poverty and kind-hearted family.
Henrietta Green, born in Massachusetts in 1835, was a wealthy and influential woman who became one of the richest and most hated women in the world. She inherited $7.5 million from her father and invested on Wall Street, saving every penny. At 33, she married multimillionaire Edward Green and had two children, Ned and Sylvia. Hetty’s meanness and meanness led to her son Ned’s leg being amputated. When she died in 1916, she left her children $100 million, worth $9.3 billion today.