Who

Pitt is a socialite, heiress, and interior designer. She's also the mother of high-profile socialites Serena Boardman and Samantha Boardman Rosen, the wife of real estate mogul Aby Rosen.

Backstory

Pauline Munn Baker was born the heiress to a banking fortune: Her great-grandfather, George F. Baker, founded the First National Bank of New York (which later became Citibank) and provided much of the initial funding for Harvard Business School. On the other side of her family, she's a descendent of Anthony J. Drexel, the 19th century financier and partner of J.P. Morgan, who also founded of Drexel University. For years, Pauline has operated a small interior design firm, Pauline Pitt Ltd., which has decorated the homes of Upper East Side doyennes like Carroll Petrie. She's more visible in her role as a Manhattan and Palm Beach socialite, as well as a mom to her socialite daughters, Samantha and Serena.

Personal

With her first marriage, Pitt decided to keep it in the family: She wed her second cousin, hedge fund manager Dixon Boardman. The marriage produced two daughters, socialite/real estate agent Serena Boardman and socialite/psychiatrist Samantha Boardman Rosen (neither of whom, it should be noted, appears to have any developmental issues relating to their weird family tree). The couple split up in 1999 after Pauline discovered that Dixon had been cheating on her. The next year, Pitt married the much-older William Pitt, a Greenwich real estate investor, who passed away a year after the wedding. Boardman, for his part, traded Pitt in for Princess Arianna zu Hohenlohe-Langenberg, who's younger than both his ex-wife and their daughters.

Habitat

Pitt divides her time between an apartment on East 72th Street (she lives in the same building as architect Richard Meier and Judge Kimba Wood) and a home in Palm Beach.