Hetty Green(1835-1916): Meet The Stingiest Woman In History
Records have shown that Hetty Green, born in 1835 in the United States is the stingiest woman in history. Her wealth is estimated at more than $2.3 billion.
She was the only daughter of a wealthy businessman. She inherited from her father a fortune estimated at $7.5 million. When she was twenty-one years old, she moved to live in New York to invest her money in Wall Street and was called the Wicked Witch of Wall Street.
She married a millionaire like herself, but still lived on leftover cakes and broken biscuits in grocery stores and argued to get a free bone for her dog every day!!
Hetty Greene was a very miserable woman. She sewed underpants when she was 16 years old and did not change them or buy others until the day of her death.
She never spent a penny, so it was said that she never used hot water. History has it that she wore a black dress that she did not change until it was completely worn out, and that she lived on eating a pie that cost only two cents.
Hetty caused her son to amputate his leg because when he broke it, she delayed treating it because she didn’t want to spend a dime and delayed, looking for free medical attention for her ailing son.
Hetty Greene died in 1916 at the age of 81 in New York City, and was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most stingy person in the world.” She was buried with nothing, in penury despite her earthly riches.
The cause of her death was a stroke due to a quarrel with her maid because the maid asked for an increase in her meager salary.
She died and left behind a huge fortune, and her children did not inherit her extreme stinginess, but rather they were generous to the point that her daughter built a free hospital with her money.
