death_place death_date birth_place image_size article_title name
manhattan september 17 , 2002 chicago , il 220px mollie wilmot
 mollie wilmot
mollie wilmot

mollie wilmot -lrb- born mollie netcher -lrb- died september 17 , 2002 -rrb- , chicago , illinois -rrb- was a philanthropist and socialite .
wilmot spent her formative years in europe where she studied art and achieved fluency in french .
she graduated from the rigorous foxcroft school .
her grandmother , mollie netcher newbury , launched her career at the boston store as a clerk and underwear buyer and was dubbed the ` merchant princess ' in her position as owner of the chicago department store .
wilmot divided her time between an apartment at the pierre in manhattan , palm beach , fl and saratoga springs , ny , boasting to the times union in 1998 that she was born at the ritz hotel in paris `` feet first , six weeks early and with all my eyelashes . ''
