Katherine Hepburn and Barbara

Hollywood’s Scotty Bowers, an author and notable figure, shared his 50-year friendship with Katharine Hepburn. He recounted Hepburn’s preference for unadorned, young, dark-haired women and how he facilitated these encounters upon her requests.

Despite Hepburn’s tendency to quickly lose interest, only seeing most women once or twice, Barbara broke the mold. Starting at 17, their romance endured for 49 years, culminating with Hepburn’s attorneys sending Barbara a $100,000 check in June 2003, shortly before Hepburn’s death.