Crazy Rich: Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty

by Jerry Oppenheimer

  Stanhope Lodge

  Starr, Ken

  Sterger, Jenn

  Stern, David

  Stern, Howard

  Stevens, Roger L.

  Stieglitz, Alfred

  Stiffman, Jeffrey

  Stoddart, Nancy

  Stokes, Paula

  Stokowski, Leopold

  (1926) marriage to Evangeline Johnson

  Stokowski, Lubya

  Stokowski, Sadja (later Sadja Greenwood)

  Streep, Meryl

  String, Mariann

  Stuart, Mother Janet Erskine

  Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Princeton

  Suffolk University Law School, Boston

  suicides, attempts, and claims

  Summit School, St. Paul

  Super Bowl

  surgical dressings

  surgical sutures

  Szaloky, Bruna

  talcum powder

  Tampa, Florida

  Tampa Bay Buccaneers

  Tams, Theodore T. Jr.

  Tannenbaum, Mike

  tax shelters

  Taylor, John Bigelow

  Teal, Annabel Johnson

  Teal, John Lansing-Johnson

  Teal, Jonathan

  Tebow, Tim

  Thayer, Sigourney

  Thompson, J. Walter

  Tiburzi, Anita

  Tiburzi, Bonnie

  Tiedman, Sara

  Tila Tequila

  Tobin, Ben

  Tobin, Herb

  Tobin, Steve

  tonics, J&J

  tooth cleaners, J&J

  Topless Golf

  Trump, Donald

  Trump International Hotel & Tower, New York

  trusts

  and entrepreneurship

  Turner, Ike and Tina

  TV Azteca

  Tylenol, tampering case

  Umbilical Tape

  Underwood, Esther “Essie”

  (1939) marries Seward Johnson Sr.

  Underwood, Nina

  Underwood, William

  Union Commerce Bank of Cleveland

  University of Arizona (Tucson)

  University of Maine

  University of Miami

  Vail, Colorado

  Vanderbilt, Gloria

  Vanderbilt Mansion East 69th St., New York

  Vanity Fair

  Vecsey, George

  Vernon, Evelyne

  jewelry of

  marriage to RWJ II

  Vetter, David

  Vicino, Guy

  (1988) death from AIDS

  friend of Johnson boys

  gayness of

  mentioned

  RWJ IV’s good friend

  RWJ IV’s social advisor

  Vicino, Jane

  Vicino, John

  cited

  friend of Johnson boys

  Vicino, Neil

  cited

  friend of Johnson boys

  mentioned

  Victoria, Queen

  Vietnam War era

  and the draft

  Vino-Kolafra

  Vi-Sol

  Vonderahe, Diane

  von Schlebrugge, Nena

  Walker, Eleanora

  The Wall Street Journal

  Walmart, tour of a store

  Walters, Barbara

  Warhol, Andy

  The Washington Post

  weight loss, Mead Johnson products for

  Weiss, Stephen

  Wellesley, Massachusetts

  Wenner, Jane

  Wenner, Jann

  WGHR Farm, Bedminster, N.J.

  Whitall, Elizabeth Ross Johnson “Lily”

  Whitall, James “Jamie”

  White, William Culver

  Wilentz, Warren W.

  Willard T.C. Johnson Foundation

  William (adopted Cambodian boy)

  Williams, Harrison Arlington “Pete” and Jeanette

  Williams, Lloyd “Kamau”

  (1978) marries Barbara Maxwell

  the “Black Johnson”

  Wilson, Ellen (first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson)

  Wilson, Tom

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Winchell, Walter

  Winfrey, Oprah

  Wold, Betty May

  (1943) marries RWJ III

  (1973) marries Eugene Gillespie

  (1976) divorces Eugene

  (1978) marries Douglas Bushnell

  after RWJ III’s death

  called “Mother Superior”

  emotional toughness of

  Florida home

  Gillespie marriage, problems with

  good looks

  and Keith J.

  letter to RWJ II regarding RWJ III’s firing

  mentioned

  philanthropies of

  politics

  shock from death of two sons

  stock in Jets

  Wold, Clint

  Wold, Helvina A.

  Wold, Karl Christian

  Wold, Dr. Keith

  (1949) marries Elaine Johnson

  Wold, Keith Clinton Jr.

  Wold, Sidney

  Wold family

  Woman’s Pro-League Council

  Wood, Louisa

  Woodric Enterprises

  lawsuits against

  Woods, Tiger

  Wood & Tittamer

  Woodward, Bob

  Wool, Dolores Plattner

  World Trade Center

  World War I

  World War II

  and the draft

  Wright, Christopher

  Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania

  Yasmin Aga Khan, Princess

  Youngman, Henny

  Young & Rubicam

  Zalstem-Zalessky, Prince Alexis

  (1938) marries Evangeline Johnson

  (1960s) dies

  Zeta-Jones, Catherine

  Ziesing, Faith Whitney

  Ziesing, Lucinda

  Zodiac (boat)

  ZONWEISS

  ALSO BY JERRY OPPENHEIMER

  The Other Mrs. Kennedy: Ethel Skakel Kennedy

  State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton

  Just Desserts: Martha Stewart

  Front Row: Anna Wintour—The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue’s Editor in Chief

  House of Hilton: From Conrad to Paris

  Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel

  Madoff with the Money

  Seinfeld: The Making of an American Icon

  Barbara Walters

  Idol: Rock Hudson—The True Story of an American Film Hero (with Jack Vitek)

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  JERRY OPPENHEIMER is the bestselling author of unauthorized biographies of public figures, among them Hillary and Bill Clinton, Anna Wintour, Rock Hudson, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters, Ethel Kennedy, Jerry Seinfeld, and the Hilton family. In addition to being a biographer, he has worked in several different capacities as a journalist, including as an investigative reporter and a producer of television news programs and documentaries.

  This is an independent biographical work, and is not authorized, endorsed or sponsored by any member of the Johnson family dynasty or any entity connected therewith.

  CRAZY RICH. Copyright © 2013 by Jerry Oppenheimer. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  www.stmartins.com

  Cover design by Lisa Marie Pompilio

  Cover photograph © Hisham Ibrahim/Getty Images

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Oppenheimer, Jerry.

  Crazy rich: power, scandal, and tragedy inside the Johnson & Johnson dynasty / by Jerry Oppenheimer.—First edition.

  pages cm

  ISBN 978-0-312-66211-0 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-1-250-01093-3 (e-book)

  1. Johnson, Robert Wood, 1893–1968—Family. 2. Johnson & Johnson—History. 3. Pharmaceutical industry�
�United States. 4. Rich people—United States—Biography. 5. Children of the rich—United States—Biography. I. Title.

  HD9666.9.J6O67 2013

  338.7'6151092273—dc23

  2013009878

  eISBN 9781250010933

  First Edition: August 2013