The heiress of the Guinness family fortune had a turbulent life of high-profile romances and even a near-death experience. According to the Independent, Lady Henrietta Guinness was with her boyfriend, “Britain’s best-known beatnik” Michael Beeby, when he crashed his flame-red Aston Martin in the French Riviera. The accident left her badly injured.
Later, after nearly marrying three different men, including an Italian sous-chef, Beeby, and a hairdresser, she ended up settling down with medical school dropout and chef Luigi Marinori in Spoleto, Italy, and having a daughter. Tragically, in 1978, Lady Henrietta, at the age of 35, threw herself off the Ponte delle Torri bridge there, as reported by The Irish Times. Having been treated for depression for some time, she is known to have once said: “If I had been poor I would have been happy.”
The year 1978 seemed to be particularly “cursed” for the Guinness family. In addition to Lady Henrietta Guinness’ death in Italy, that same year saw three more Guinness descendants tragically pass away.
According to The Irish Times, John Guinness, a British diplomat, was involved in a car accident in 1978. While John, who was driving, survived, the accident proved fatal for his four-year-old son, Peter Guinness. Additionally, an unnamed 17-year-old Guinness family member died from a suspected drug overdose. A third descendent, Major Dennys Guinness, was also found dead in a cottage in Hampshire the same year. He had recently been questioned by police about possible firearms offenses, as related by the Financial Review.
Unfortunately, these two overdoses would not be the last for the Guinness family. With many members plagued with addiction, drugs would play a major role in many of the tragedies to follow.
Maureen’s eldest daughter, Lady Caroline Blackwood, would famously live a turbulent life as a muse for artists, such as her husbands Lucian Freud, Israel Citkowitz, and Robert Lowell. An alcoholic who struggled to make lasting relationships, Blackwood established an unstable family for her own children. At only 18 years old, Natalya Citkowitz, Blackwood’s daughter, would die in 1978 after hitting her head and drowning in a bath while taking heroin,
John Guinness was the chairman of the Dublin bank Guinness and Mahon and the sixth cousin of the chairman of the Guinness Brewery. His well-off status made him and his family the target of a kidnapping on April 8, 1986. According to The New York Times, he had returned home from work that day to the sight of his wife and daughter tied up. The abductors attacked him and tied him up as well and then escaped with Mrs. Guinness.
The kidnapping of Jennifer Guinness was not the only incident in 1986. One night in June of the same year, students at Oxford’s Christ Church College were celebrating the end of final examinations. Among them was Olivia Channon, the 22-year-old daughter of Trade and Industry Secretary Paul Channon and heiress to the Guinness brewing and banking fortune. The next morning, she was found dead, lying fully clothed on the bed in a friend’s dorm room, according to the Associated Press. Channon had overdosed on heroin and alcohol.
The Guinness family curse seemed to even extend to those around them at times. The Oxford dorm room that Olivia Channon was found in belonged to Count Gottfried von Bismarck (pictured right above), the son of Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck of Germany.
Shaken by her death, von Bismarck vowed that his days of living it up were over after the incident. Unfortunately, he would fail to keep his promise. Throwing sex parties at his flat, he made headlines again in 2006 when one of his guests fell to his death from his roof terrace. A year later, the 44-year-old would be discovered dead with a blackened arm. According to the Independent, he had injected himself with cocaine every hour for nearly 24 hours, leading the examiner to announce that von Bismarck had the greatest amount of cocaine in any body he’d ever seen.
It goes on and on. The family is full of mysterious deaths and renown for their wild and disturbing behaviors.
The family is still dropping like flies.
In a year already known for its tragedies, it is perhaps even more unfortunate that the Guinness family was not spared from their “curse.” On July 31, 2020, Honor Uloth, the 19-year-old granddaughter of Benjamin Guinness, the 3rd Earl of Iveagh, was involved in a fatal accident.
Tom Guinness is the HALF BROTHER of ‘mind-controlled sex slave’ Daphne Guinness, who is in Ghislaine’s social circle.
Sabrina Guinness- in Epstein’s black book and supposedly flew on Lolita Express 7 times, who briefly dated Prince Charles before he his marriage to Diana.
The connections go on and on with this dark family.
Digs on the dark and twisted history of the Guinness Clan:
https://www.eyeopeningtruth.com/guinness-klan/
Unfortunately, these two overdoses would not be the last for the Guinness family. With many members plagued with addiction, drugs would play a major role in many of the tragedies to follow.
It goes on and on. The family is full of mysterious deaths and renown for their wild and disturbing behaviors.
The family is still dropping like flies.
The connections go on and on with this dark family.
I seriously looked for Alec Guinness in there.
Looking through the actor's history again, apparently he was NOT related. His birth name was Alec Guinness le Cuffe.