Article Cassie Chadwick
Type: Con Artist.
Summary: A woman financed a lavish lifestyle by claiming to be the daughter of Andrew Carnegie.
Cassie Chadwick claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie. She said that Carnegie was paying her huge sums of money in order to keep their relationship a secret. Based upon this claim alone, she managed to borrow almost $2,000,000 from Cleveland area banks and wealthy individuals between 1901 and 1904. Finally, when her debts grew too large, the banks began to call in her loans, and at that point her entire scheme fell apart. She was sentenced to ten years in prison. When Carnegie was told about the fiasco, his only comment was, “I have never heard of Mrs. Chadwick.”
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