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• Il est né le 14 août 1912 dans Manhattan, New York, New York County, New York, United States.
• (John Jacob Astor VI) le 26 juin 1992 dans Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA.Source 1
• Il est décédé le 26 juin 1992 dans Bayshore, Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States (Riding Accident), il avait 79 ans.
• Un enfant de John Jacob IV Astor et Madeleine Talmage Force

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John Jacob Astor VI (August 14, 1912 – June 26, 1992), known familiarly as "Jakey", was a member of the Astor family. He was born four months after his father, John Jacob Astor IV, died in the sinking of RMS Titanic.

Astor's parents had married on September 9, 1911 and were returning home aboard the Titanic after about three months of honeymooning in Egypt and Europe. Madeleine Astor was five months pregnant when her husband put her in one of Titanic's lifeboats. She was rescued eight hours after her husband went down with the ship. The younger Astor is by some considered a Titanic survivor, albeit in utero.

Under the terms of her husband's will, Madeleine Astor received very little from an estate estimated to be as much as $100 million. Provided she did not remarry, the 19-year-old widow received the annual investment income from a five-million-dollar trust fund and the use of her late husband's homes on Fifth Avenue in New York City and in Newport, Rhode Island. No specific provision for the unborn child had yet been made, but a clause of his father's will provided that any surviving child other than his son Vincent and his daughter Ava would receive a bequest of $3 million, to be held in trust until the child reached age 21. This amount eventually went to the younger Astor on his 21st birthday.

His stepfathers were William K. Dick and Enzo Fiermonte.

John Jacob Astor VI graduated from St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island.

Astor was originally engaged to Eileen S.S. Gillespie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Gillespie of New York City and Newport, Rhode Island in December 1933. However, she broke off the engagement two days before the wedding; reportedly, "She felt that he had grown up lonely... He was a bit eccentric, and she felt he wasn’t mature enough to get married."

He married Ellen Tuck French at Trinity Church in Manhattan on June 30, 1934.[4] The couple was divorced in 1943; they had one child, William Backhouse Astor III.

Astor then married Gertrude Gretsch, daughter of Walter Gretsch, in New York City on September 18, 1944. The couple had a daughter, Mary Jacqueline (born 1949, Mrs John Nicholas Drexel), but their marriage ended in divorce in 1954, though the Mexican divorce was ruled invalid in 1956. An American divorce soon followed. Gertrude Astor married, as her second husband, in 1961, Sonio Coletti-Perucca.

He married a third time to Dolores Margaret Fullman (born 1929) on 6 August 1954 they separated soon after returning from their honeymoon and divorced.

His fourth wife was Sue Sandford; she predeceased him, circa 1985.

John Jacob Astor VI had one son from the 1st, and one daughter from the 2nd marriage:

1. William Backhouse Astor III (*1935), married Charlotte Fisk. They had 2 children, William Backhouse Astor IV (*1959), who became Victoria Ann Astor and m.2004 Steven Potter, and Caroline Fisk Astor.

2. Jacqueline Astor (*1949), m.1984 John Nicholas Drexel IV (*1945) (one son)

With them the male Astor line in the U.S. has come to an end.

John Jacob Astor VI died in Miami Beach, Florida in 1992 at the age of 79. His body was returned to New York for burial with his parents in the Trinity Church Cemetery.

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American socialite, shipping businessman, and member of the Astor family. He was dubbed the "Titanic Baby" for his affiliation with the RMS Titanic; Astor was born four months after his father, Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, died in the sinking of the Titanic; his mother Madeleine Astor survived the sinking. Astor was known for his legal battles with the estate of his elder half-brother, Vincent Astor, to inherit a larger portion of their father's $85 million fortune He was also known for his many engagements and four marriages to prominent society women.
Astor died in Miami Beach, Florida, in 1992 at the age of 79. His body was returned to New York for burial with his parents in the Trinity Church Cemetery.At the time of his death, he was survived by his son, daughter, three grandsons, and younger half-brother.

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