Marylou Whitney
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Marylou Whitney (born Marie Louise Schroeder December 24, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a prominent socialite. Whitney has homes in New York City, Saratoga Springs, New York and Long Island's North Shore. She is also a noted philanthropist.
Married to Frank Hosford in 1948, and after a divorce, to Cornelius Vanderbilt "Sonny" Whitney in 1958. After Sonny Whitney's death in 1992 the 71-year-old widow married John Hendrickson, a 32-year-old tennis champ and aide to former Governor Walter Joseph Hickel of Alaska.
Her late husband's family were a major force in thoroughbred horse racing and in 2003, she made a $100,000 donation to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, an organization that stables approximately seven hundred thoroughbred horses at twenty-five farms throughout the United States with a mission of finding new homes through adoption by private citizens.
Her "Marylou Whitney Stables" is the owner of Birdstone, the 2004 Belmont Stakes winner.
External links
- [New York Metro article] on MaryLou Whitney.
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