William Randolph Hearst was the Rupert Murdoch of his day. “He is,” President Teddy Roosevelt once wrote, “the most potent single influence for evil we have in our life.

(Fortune magazine) -- In September 2004, John Randolph "Bunky" Hearst Jr. and his wife, Barbara, hosted what would be their last dinner party at the couple's estate in the Hamptons. In the middle ...

Patty Hearst may have looked and behaved like an average undergraduate — but the Hearst family's wealth and media power made her a target, and turned her kidnapping into an international news event.

A granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, Mrs. Boudjakdji was named president of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, an independent private philanthropy, in January 2001. The foundationand ...

Mr. Ross' family had long known the Hearsts -- his mother founded the Crippled Children's Society with Patty Hearst's mother, Catherine, in the 1950s, when both families lived in Hillsborough ...

NEW YORK -- William R. Hearst III has been named president of The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, succeeding Millicent Hearst Boudjakdji, who died Oct. 16. Hearst, a grandson of William ...

Patty Hearst may have looked and behaved like an average undergraduate — but the Hearst family's wealth and media power made her a target, and turned her kidnapping into an international news event.