Forbidden: The Love of William R. Hearst & Tessie Powers

Who was Tessie Powers, the Cambridge, Massachusetts waitress who captured William Randolph Hearst's heart at Harvard University? A "kept woman" from 1885 - 1893 , Powers accepted a million-dollar settlement pushed by Hearst's mother Phoebe to leave Hearst alone permanently. This settlement agreement tinted Hearst's enjoyment of Sausalito, California for decades.

Sources:

David Nasaw, The Chief, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (2000).

Larry Clinton, Hearst in Sausalito, The Sausalito Historical Society, https://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2021-columns/2021/10/13/hearst-in-sausalito (2021).

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