Collette Lyons
Collette Lyons( October 3, 1908 – October 5, 1986) was an American stage, film and television actress.
Lyons married George Randolph Hearst on March 6, 1952, in Hollywood, California.
The wedding was their second such ceremony, following an October 1951 nuptial in Mexico.
Lyons obtained a divorce from Hearst in Santa Monica, California, in 1958.
Lyons was also married to Alan Dinehart Jr., but that union was annulled in April 1950.
George Randolph Chester
George Randolph Chester( January 27, 1869 – February 26, 1924) was an American writer and screenwriter, film editor, and director.
William Randolph Hearst III
William Randolph Hearst III( born June 18, 1949) is an American heir, businessman, and philanthropist.
John Randolph Hearst
John Randolph Hearst( 1909 – 1958) was an American business executive and the third son of William Randolph Hearst.
Hearst, like his brothers, worked for the Hearst Corporation and was said by some to have the most executive talent among the sons of William Randolph Hearst.
Any question of his rivaling the non-family executives who constituted a majority of the trustees of his father's will, however, was rendered moot after he died of a heart attack aged 49, whilst in the Virgin Islands.
Hearst married Gretchen Wilson( who later married Woolworth Donahue( Jesse( Woolworth) Donahue's son).
Hearst left four children, including John Randolph Hearst Jr., a company executive and director who represented this branch of the family among the trustees,
William Randolph Hearst Jr.
William Randolph
Hearst Jr.( January 27, 1908 – May 14, 1993) was an American businessman and newspaper publisher.
He was the second son of the publisher William Randolph Hearst.
He became editor- in- chief of Hearst Newspapers after the death of his father in 1951.
He won a Pulitzer Prize for his interview with Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, and associated commentaries in 1955.
Hearst attended the University of California, Berkeley and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
Hearst was instrumental in restoring some measure of family control to the Hearst Corporation, which under his father's will is( and will continue to be while any grandchild alive at William Randolph Hearst Sr.'s death in 1951 is still living) controlled by a board of thirteen trustees, five from the Hearst family and eight Hearst executives.
When tax laws changed to prevent the foundations his father had established from continuing to own the corporation, he arranged for the family trust( with the same trustees) to buy the shares and for longtime chief executive Richard E. Berlin, who was going senile, to be eased out to become chairman of the trustees for a period.
Later, William Randolph Hearst Jr. himself headed the trust and served as chairman of the executive committee of the corporation.
Today, his branch of the family is represented on the trustees by his son, William Randolph Hearst III.
Hearst was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
He makes a brief appearance in the musical adaptation of" Newsies" as Bill.
George Randolph Hearst Jr.
George Randolph Hearst Jr.
(July 13, 1927 – June 25, 2012) was chairman of the board of the Hearst Corporation from 1996 through to his death in 2012, succeeding his uncle Randolph Apperson Hearst.
He was a director at the company for over forty years.
Non-family executives are a majority on the trust that controls the corporation, and this trust will not dissolve until all grandchildren alive at the death of William Randolph Hearst have died.
George Jr. was one of the oldest grandchildren.
However, there are five family seats among the 13 trustees, and George represented his branch of the family.
Hearst first joined the Naval Air Corps.
Later, he joined the United States Army and served in the Korean War.
Phoebe Hearst Cooke
Phoebe Millicent Hearst Cooke( July 13, 1927 – November 18, 2012) was an American businesswoman and philanthropist.
She served on the board of directors of the Hearst Corporation from 1962 to 1998.
She was a granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst.
Her twin brother was former Hearst Corporation chairman George Randolph Hearst Jr., who died in June 2012.
She spent much of her life in Woodside, California, and was particularly involved in the equestrian community, including horse- assisted therapy through the National Center For Equine Facilitated Therapy.
In her elder years, she faced disputes with family over the management of her estate, which concluded in 2009 with a conservatorship.
In 1996, she was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy& Western Heritage Museum.
Lillian Josephine Chester
Lillian Josephine Chester( September 29, 1887 – June 7, 1961) was an American writer and filmmaker.
Chester wrote under many different variations of her name including Lillian Randolph Chester, Mrs. George Randolph Chester, and Lillian Chester.
She published her first book in 1914.
" The Ball of Fire" was a co-authored book with her husband.
She worked alone and alongside her husband, George Randolph Chester, from 1914 until his death in 1924.
She wrote hundreds of short stories and numerous stage plays.
George Randolph Hearst III
George Randolph Hearst III (born 1955) is the publisher and CEO of the "Times Union" newspaper in Albany, New York, and a director of the Hearst Corporation.
He is the second child of George Randolph Hearst, Jr. and Mary Astrid Thompson and great-grandson of William Randolph Hearst.
Hearst was previously the director of operations of the "Times Union" and then its associate publisher and general manager.
He is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Albany Institute of History & Art, a member of the board of directors of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and St. Peter's Health Care Services, a hospital in Albany.
He sued the producer of the "reality-TV" movie "Hopelessly Rich", which aired on VH1 in 2003, over his portrayal in the made-for-TV movie by a con man who had stolen his identity and impersonated Hearst to the producers.
He is part of the ownership group of the Albany Empire of the Arena Football League, which began play in 2018.
George Randolph Hearst
George Randolph
Hearst Sr.( April 23, 1904 – January 26, 1972) was an American heir and media executive.
He was the son of media magnate William Randolph Hearst, and the vice president of the Hearst Corporation.

Question: What nationality is George Randolph Hearst Iii's father?
Answer: United States