{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a7ddd93049c692a6bedfcfd/6a7de0f16e5b5bfda616fe0f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Scandals of History's Richest Dynasties | Poison, Wills & Duels | History for Sleep | Old Money After Dark","description":"<h3><strong>Scandals of History’s Richest Dynasties | Poison, Wills &amp; Duels | History for Sleep | Old Money After Dark</strong></h3><p>Behind the tall wrought-iron gates, marble porticos, and candlelit ballrooms of history’s greatest fortunes lies an unspoken truth: immense wealth is almost never clean. For centuries, the ultra-wealthy possessed the ultimate luxury—the power to buy silence. Tonight, we gently step past the uniformed footmen and through shuttered doors to explore the dark, hidden secrets that built and destroyed legendary dynasties.</p><p><br></p><p>From \"inheritance powders\" slipped into crystal goblets and forged signatures worth millions, to fatal pistols raised in the morning mist and heirs locked away in forgotten wings, drift off to the slow, atmospheric stories of history's most scandalous fortunes.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Tonight’s Bedtime Chapters</strong></p><ul><li><strong>The Poisoned Cup:</strong> The lethal art of Aqua Tofana, the Sun King's royal food tasters, and the dark court intrigue of 17th-century Paris.</li><li><strong>Ink, Wax &amp; Stolen Wills:</strong> Hetty Green’s million-dollar courtroom trial and the ghostly séances behind Commodore Vanderbilt’s railroad inheritance.</li><li><strong>Satisfaction at Dawn:</strong> The deadly morning mist at Weehawken between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and duels of honor across European high society.</li><li><strong>The Ruthless &amp; The Ruined:</strong> Jay Gould’s secret presses, the Black Friday gold panic of 1869, and market corners that swallowed entire fortunes overnight.</li><li><strong>Cursed Diamonds &amp; The Diamond Necklace:</strong> The royal jewel scam that unseated a French queen and the vanishing history of the French Blue.</li><li><strong>The Double Life:</strong> Lavish Gilded Age mansions funded by secret bootleg empires and Wall Street's most shocking hidden crimes.</li><li><strong>What the Servants Knew:</strong> The silent army behind the backstairs who held the real keys to dynastic power and blackmail.</li><li><strong>The Locked Wing:</strong> Shuttered attic doors, Victorian sanity trials, and the heartbreaking 25-year secret of Blanche Monnier.</li></ul>","author_name":"Old Money After Dark"}