Wendy Rush, wife of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who went down on the Titanic together.
. Straus was a retailing magnate who co-owned Macy’s department store.
The newspaper said Wendy Rush is descended from one of the Strauses’ daughters, Minnie. She married Dr. Richard Weil in 1905 and their son, Richard Weil Jr., Wendy Rush’s grandfather, was later president of Macy’s New York.
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