Hetty Green, known as The Witch of Wall Street, is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the stingiest woman in history. Her net worth in today’s dollars was over $5.4 billion.
Despite her extreme wealth, she married a millionaire and lived on leftover cakes and broken biscuits from a nearby bakery.
She caused her own son to lose his leg because she wasted time looking for a free clinic instead of paying a hospital bill.
She died in 1916 at the age of 81 from a stroke while arguing with her maid over a pay raise.
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