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The First-Class Passengers had a Combined Wealth of $500 million

The fact that the Titanic was designed to be the biggest and most luxurious liner in the world had been mentioned over and over; what this meant is that there were some super-rich people in the first-class cabins of the ship during her maiden voyage.

It is therefore not altogether surprising that the combined net worth of the first-class passengers was $500 million; John Jacob Astor IV alone accounted for $87 million of that. Astor was one of the richest people in the world at the time but he perished with the ship.