Horten married Helmut in 1966, when she was 19 and he was around 50. Her husband, Helmut — dead since 1987, supposedly laid the foundation for his impressive department-store fortune by ...

Jewels owned by the late billionaire Heidi Horten, whose first husband purchased Jewish businesses sold under duress during the Nazi era, fetched a combined $201 million.

The estate of Heidi Horten is selling the necklace she is wearing, the “Briolette of India,” and 699 other jewels in a sale that has drawn criticism because of her husband’s business practices.