Editing Vincent Astor (section)

==Marriages==
[[File:Helen Dinsmore Huntingdon.jpg|thumb|right|[[Helen Huntington Hull|Helen Dinsmore Huntington]]]]
Astor married [[Helen Dinsmore Huntington]] on April 30, 1914.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E0DE173AE633A25752C0A9639C946596D6CF|title=Vincent Astor Weds Helen Huntington; Pallid from Illness, but Active in the Festivities After the Ceremony|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 1, 1914|access-date=October 2, 2012|url-access=subscription }}</ref> At the ceremony, he was stricken with the [[mumps]], a disease that made him sterile; as for the bride, her friend [[Glenway Wescott]], the novelist, admiringly described her in his unpublished diaries as "a grand, old-fashioned lesbian."<ref>Glenway Wescott Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University, [[New Haven, Connecticut]]</ref> The couple divorced in 1940. A year later, Helen became the second wife of Lytle Hull (1882&ndash;1958), a real-estate broker who was a friend and business associate of her former husband.

Shortly after his divorce, Astor married [[Mary Benedict Cushing]], the eldest daughter of Dr. [[Harvey Williams Cushing]] and Katharine Stone Crowell. Mary's sisters—the trio were collectively known as the "[[Cushing Sisters]]"—were [[Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney|Betsey Maria Cushing]] and [[Babe Paley|Barbara "Babe" Cushing]]. Astor and Cushing divorced in September 1953, and the following month, Cushing wed James Whitney Fosburgh, a painter who worked as an art lecturer at the [[Frick Museum]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Mary Fosburgh, 72. One of Cushing Sisters And a Leader in Arts. Raised Funds During War |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/06/archives/mary-fosburgh-72-one-of-cushing-sisters-and-a-leader-in-arts-raised.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 8, 1978 |access-date=March 21, 2010 }}</ref>

On October 8, 1953, several weeks after divorcing his second wife, Astor married the once-divorced, once-widowed [[Brooke Astor|Roberta Brooke Russell]]. According to an often-told story in society circles, Astor agreed to divorce his second wife only after she had found him a replacement spouse. Her first suggestion was Janet Newbold Ryan Stewart Bush, the newly divorced wife of James Smith Bush II, who turned Astor down with startling candor, saying, "I don't even like you."<ref>{{cite web|title=Janet Newbold married (1) Allan A. Ryan Jr, (2) William Rhinelander Stewart, and (3) James Smith Bush II. Her third husband, to whom she was married from 1948 until 1952, was a brother of Senator Prescott Sheldon, an uncle of U.S. president George Herbert Walker Bush, and a great-uncle of U.S. president George Walker Bush|publisher=Newyorksocialdiary.com}}</ref> Astor proceeded to tell her that he was not well and, though only in his early 60s, he could not be expected to live for very long, whereupon she would inherit his millions. At that, Janet Bush reportedly replied, "What if you do live?". Mary Cushing then recommended Brooke. Together, Vincent and Brooke developed the Vincent Astor Foundation, a foundation that was designed to give back to [[New York City]]. Brooke died in 2007 at the age of 105.