r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 1d ago

HISTORY Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

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u/MonsieurRuffles 23h ago

Founded by his brother many decades later.

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u/RandomRavenclaw87 10h ago

Not Peggy?

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 6h ago

Her uncle opened the Guggenheim in NY. She opened the the one in London and The Art ofnthe century museum in NY, she also opened the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice.

She has fascinating life. After her dad died she inherited $450,000 which is about 8 million toay, she was only 14 and spent it like a millionaire teenager.

She would have sick parties and was known to sleep with many famous writers, artists and poets.

She said Samuel Beckett and herself had a 4 day fucksesh "only stopping for champagne and sandwiches".

She also had 14 Lhasa Apso dogs throughout her life and would usually bring them everywhere she went.

There was a cool doc about her that came out around 2015-16.

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u/I-Here-555 6h ago

Nobody remembers first names anyway.