When Stein's mother died, Rupert Murdoch bought the home, which is now owned by his son James. Her childhood home was a Beverly Hills mansion known as 'Misty Mountain', once occupied by Katharine Hepburn in the 1930s. Her mother Doris founded the Doris Jones Stein Foundation. Stein was the founder of the Music Corporation of America (MCA), which was once the largest talent agency in the world and took over Universal, and he also founded Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA. Stein, born in Los Angeles to renowned parents. 'She doesn't go out too much,' he told NY Daily News. It has been home to old New York families from Whitney to Mellons, as well as Madame Chiang Kai-shek.Īnd later Stein, an heiress to a Beverly Hills showbiz fortune who made a name for herself in Manhattan.Ī doorman at Stein's building described her as 'a very nice person.' The prestigious limestone building was completed in 1930, when residents could moor their boats outside. Gloria then sold the duplex penthouse to Stein. Gloria watched as sat on the parapet then swung over the edge, letting go after a few seconds. Gloria recounted in a memoir how Carter woke up from a late afternoon nap, appeared in the doorway of her room, asking repeatedly 'what's going on?', then sprinted upstairs to the roof terrace. Carter, left, killed himself from an upstairs balcony while his mother watched in July 1988Ĭarter, who was two years older than Anderson, was 23 when he fell to his death in July 1988 as his mother tried to stop him.
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