LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betsy Bloomingdale, a department store heir’s widow who hobnobbed with the world’s elite and epitomized high fashion, has died. She was 93.

The socialite and philanthropist died Tuesday at her home in the exclusive Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles from congestive heart failure, her daughter-in-law, Justine Bloomingdale, said Thursday.


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