In 1911, a teenaged socialite named Madeleine Talmage Force rose from relative obscurity to land one of the greatest eligible bachelors of her era: a newly divorced Colonel John Jacob Astor IV ...
Their divorce in 1909 after 18 years of marriage scandalized New York society, as did Astor’s 1911 marriage to the much younger Madeleine Talmage Force (Astor was 47 and Madeleine was just 18).