First Lady Nancy Reagan and designer Oscar de la Renta present Astor with an award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1988. (Ed Bailey / AP)
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger escorts Astor from funeral services for longtime CBS Chairman William S. Paley in New York in October 1990. (Mike Albans / AP)
Then-U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar receives the “New Yorker for New York” award from Astor in 1991. (Malcolm Clarke / AP)
Astor poses in front of a portrait of her late husband, Vincent Astor, in her Park Avenue apartment in 1992. (Alex Brandon / AP)
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Astor in 1997. She gave away nearly $200 million to New York City organizations and projects after she personally inspected them. (Serge J-F. Levy / AP)
Astor’s tombstone will be inscribed with the words she specifically asked for: “I had a wonderful life.” (Peter Kramer / Getty Images)
