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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1971
Page
4
Marina Maguire, heiress to a whiskey and gun profits fortune, died from a ruptured spleen after a jail cell injury in Porterville California. Her life intertwined wealth, fashion, and a rising drug culture with heroin and methadone setbacks.
Special Report traces Marina Maguire from a powerful financier’s postwar expansion into oil gas and manufacturing to owning American Mercury magazine. Born 1943 in Greenwich she grew amid wealth at Belle Haven, attended Rosemary Hall and Greenwich Country Day, and endured family tensions and pressures of debutante life.
Rafts of social life surround Marina Chickerings rise as a debutante, society figure, and jet set icon with lavish parties, fashion, and high society ties in New York and Acapulco. The narrative shifts to personal turmoil, marriage, divorce, a child, illness, and a troubled later life, ending amid a web of relationships and public attention.
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