Anne Moen Bullitt
| Anne Moen Bullitt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1924-02-24 Philadelphia |
| Died | August 18, 2007 (aged 83) Ireland |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | horsebreeder |
| Known for | independently wealthy beauty |
Anne Moen Bullitt was an American socialite, philanthropist, and horsebreeder. In her youth she was regarded as a great beauty, and was known for assembling a wardrobe of rare and valuable classic couture items. She traveled widely and was married four times.
She bought a beautiful 700 acre estate in County Kildare, Ireland, where she became one of Ireland's first female horsebreeders.
Her mother was Louise Bryant, best known for writing, as a witness to the founding of the Soviet Union, where she had traveled with her second husband, John Silas Reed. Her father was an independently wealthy diplomat, William C. Bullitt, who had also been in Russia, at the time of the founding of the Soviet Union, as an unofficial observer for President Woodrow Wilson. The pair married in 1924, four years after Bryant's second husband Reed died of Typhus in the Soviet Union, just weeks before Anne Moen's birth.
She had almost no contact with her mother, as her Bullitt divorced her when she was an infant, claiming she was an alcoholic and unfit mother. Accounts said she followed her father everywhere, including on his diplomatic missions, and that he allowed her to hide, and listen, when he had meetings with other VIPs.
According to Decades magazine she was a great beauty, with a figure like that or retro-vaudeville proponent Dita von Teese.Decades magazine said she had an 18 inch waist, paired with a generous bosom. When her estate auctioned her extensive wardrobe of high-fashion items, at Christie's, in 2009, the Irish Independent reported she had a 20 inch waist, and an hourglass figure. According to Decades magazine, she had an eye for fashion, and her wealth enabled her to buy items that became classic examples of the high-fashion of her period.
Bullitt, and her advisors, donated the papers of her famous parents to Yale University, and she helped clarify some aspects of their lives. Her father was an early friend and supporter of pioneering psychotherapist Sigmund Freud, and published a controversial book analyzing Woodrow Wilson, entitled Thomas Woodrow Wilson – A Psychological Study. According to the New York Daily News, after Freud heard Bullitt declare she was so devoted to her father, she looked upon him as her god, he replied: "You know, I have developed a theory that male children's first love is their mother, and females', the father. But this is the first time a child has confirmed my theory."
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