Charlene Marshall (AKA “Miss Piggy”, née Charlene Detwyler Tyler and previously Charlene Gilbert)Despite her late mother-in-law detesting her and referring to her as “that b***h”, Charlene Marshall managed to get her claws into $14.5 million of Brooke Astor’s (1902 – 2007) wealth. A mother of three by her first marriage and best known for helping her husband Anthony (1924 – 2014) evade jail for four years after he was convicted in 2009, Marshall is the personification of a ‘Stepford Wife’ and considered by many a thoroughly nasty example of the very worst kind of social climber. Charlene Marshall may now be extremely wealthy but she will deservedly be forever shunned.

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Judy Taubman (previously Judith Mazor Rounick, née Jehudit Mazor)
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Judy Taubman (previously Judith Mazor Rounick, née Jehudit Mazor)

The widow of the disgraced and briefly jailed owner of Sotheby’s, A. Alfred Taubman (1924 – 2015), found herself back in the news in September 2014 after a very public spat with her stepchildren. The Roll Call – SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES

Thomas Gilbert Jr. (AKA “Tommy Gilbert Jr.”)
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Thomas Gilbert Jr.

Privileged and 6’3” tall, Princeton graduate Thomas Gilbert Jr. stands accused of the January 2015 slaying of his hedge fund manager father Thomas Gilbert Sr.