Barbara Goldsmith

Watching as Sotheby’s auctions off Mrs. Astor’s jewels, Barbara Goldsmith recalls her irreplaceable friend.

Casey Johnson's death was the latest chapter in the tragic saga of an American dynasty. Barbara Goldsmith, author of Johnson v. Johnson, on the family's struggles, including how, according to a relative, the heiress and her father hadn’t spoken in years.

So it’s come to this: New York paparazzi are chasing down elderly librarians—and turning them into scapegoats for our collective recession rage. Barbara Goldsmith on how our society rewards the wrong heroes.

The best way to learn financial ethics is to study the lives of the nine wealthiest financiers of 1923. A quarter century later, they were all either dead, broke, or in prison.

Battles over great fortunes usually reveal controlling, narcissistic parents and lonely children.