She Married An Oil Billionaire. Then He Chose Another Man's Wife: Anne Bass

In 1965 Anne Hendricks married Sid Bass, heir to a Fort Worth oil fortune, after her father warned her that "great wealth could breed a lot of unhappiness." She built a Paul Rudolph house with 12 levels and 14 ceiling heights, raised about $10 million for the School of American Ballet, and bought a record-priced Fifth Avenue apartment for $5.25 million. In 1986 the society columns linked her husband with Mercedes Kellogg, the wife of a former U.S. ambassador. A magazine crowned Anne the Empress of Fort Worth in February 1987, the same month another called the romance a merger. The 1988 settlement was reported at $200 million, the largest in Texas history at the time, and 34 years later twelve works from her collection sold for $363 million. Subscribe to the channel: @disposableglamour In this video, we talk about what happened to Anne Bass when her billionaire husband chose another man's wife, including her father's warning before the wedding, the Paul Rudolph house and its armed guards, the "Empress of Fort Worth" and the museum's "Bass body count," Balanchine's "golden girl from Texas," the 1985 "Texas takeover" fight at the School of American Ballet, the Richardson inheritance and the Disney stake, Texas community property law, the two Christmases of 1986, the "Bass Mulls Mercedes Merger" headline, the reported $500 million offer, the 1987 filing and the 1988 settlement, the wedding at the Plaza, the farm in Kent, the young Cambodian dancer she brought to New York, the 2007 home invasion, and the 2022 Christie's sale. Subscribe for the women the society pages judged and never asked. Tell me where you're watching from and what you think the columns missed about Anne Bass. Share this on Facebook, Reddit or with the friend who remembers the 1980s society pages, because you're the reason this channel keeps going. Chapters: 00:00 Opening 01:00 A Warning Before the Wedding. 06:54 The House That Rose Out of the Trees. 13:29 The Empress of Fort Worth. 21:46 The Golden Girl From Texas. 29:28 A Fortune That Was Never Hers. 36:26 Another Man's Wife. 42:30 A Merger in the Headlines. 49:19 Two Hundred Million Dollars and a Wedding at the Plaza. 55:30 A Farm in Connecticut and a Boy From Angkor Wat. 1:02:38 The Little Dancer at Christie's. Sources: Texas Monthly, The Empress of Fort Worth (1987) The Empress of Fort Worth UPI, Divorce, Texas-Style (1987) DIVORCE, TEXAS-STYLE - UPI Archives D Magazine, Bass Mulls Mercedes Merger: Fort Worth Atwitter (1987) Bass Mulls Mercedes Merger: Fort Worth Atwitter Galerie, Sale of the Collection of Anne H. Bass Brings in $363 Million (2022) Sale of the Collection of Anne H. Bass Brings in $363 Million W magazine, Anne Bass: All the Right Moves (2010) Anne Bass: All the Right Moves The Lakeville Journal, Anne Bass, an important force in Kent (2020) Anne Bass, an important force in Kent village and Weantinoge land trust NBC News, Ex-butler who held socialite hostage (2012) Ex-butler who held socialite hostage, injected her in extortion attempt gets 20-year sentence #DisposableGlamour #AnneBass #SidBass #MercedesBass #FortWorth #Texas #PaulRudolph #SchoolOfAmericanBallet #NewYorkCityBallet #Balanchine #FifthAvenue #Christies #Monet #Rothko #Degas #Divorce #Socialite #1980s #WomensHistory #Documentary #History