Editing Barbara Hutton (section)

===Kurt Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow===
Count Kurt von [[Haugwitz|Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow]], with whom she had her only child, a son named [[Lance Reventlow|Lance]], was her second husband.<ref>This fabulous century - Page 156</ref> Reventlow dominated her through verbal and physical [[spousal abuse|abuse]], which escalated to a savage beating that left her hospitalized and put him in jail. He also persuaded her to [[relinquishment of United States nationality|give up her American citizenship]], and to take his native [[Denmark|Danish]] citizenship for tax purposes, which she did in December 1937 in a New York federal court. At this point she lapsed into [[drug abuse]]. Hutton then developed [[anorexia nervosa|anorexia]], which would plague her for the rest of her life and would leave her unable to have further children. Lance Reventlow, the son, became a race car driver and builder of his own well-respected sports car, the Scarab, in the golden age of American sports car racing.

Hutton's divorce from Reventlow gave her [[child custody|custody]] of their son after a bitter court dispute. As her father had done, she left the raising of her child to a governess and private [[boarding school]]s.

In 1938, Hutton had a brief affair with [[Howard Hughes]] in London at the [[Savoy Hotel, London|Savoy Hotel]], where Hughes spent several afternoons with Hutton.    Hughes, at the time, was engaged to [[Katharine Hepburn]] and had come to London to meet with government officials and arrange permission to overfly Europe as part of a plan to circumnavigate the globe by air. Hutton later recalled that "he felt he must absolutely be in control of a situation."<ref name="ReferenceB">"Howard Hughes - The Untold Story" by Peter Brown and Pat Broeske</ref>

Hughes had met Hepburn on the set of one of Cary Grant's movies, while visiting with Grant. Howard Hughes and Cary Grant were close, long-time friends.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>