Hearst's timing in leaving publishing, in 1993, probably had something to do with the death of his father, a Pulitizer-prize-winning newspaper reporter, but the road the youngest William took had everything to do with his wealth, position and polymath intelligence.

FORBES: Polymath scion

So the question is, how can he now stand by idly and just say -- one of his former White House aides is running this thing that says that Mitt Romney may have had something to do with someone's death?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

Ms Cohodas believes that an obsession with dieting had something to do with the singer's death in 1963 (she was just 39) from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

ECONOMIST: Dinah Washington