According to the Guinness Book of Records, Hetty Green is an American woman known as the stingiest woman in history. Her fortune is estimated at 2.3 billion dollars. She am_putated her son’s leg due to the fact that she insisted on seeking free treatment. She did not change her underwear from the age of 16 until she passed away. Hetty Green in America in 1835, the only daughter of a wealthy businessman.

She opened her first bank account at the age of 6, after her passion for collecting money appeared and she began reading the economic pages in the daily newspapers. She inherited from her father a fortune estimated at $ 7.5 million when she was 21, then she moved to New York to invest her money in Wall Street. Dubbed the Wicked Witch of Wall Street, she married a multi-millionaire but still lived on leftover cookies and crackers at the grocery store and argued for a free bone for her dog every day.

As a very stingy woman, Hetty Green never spent a penny. She was said to never use hot water. She wore a black robe that she only changed when it was completely worn out, and that she lived on a pie that cost only two cents, and Hetty c_ut off her son’s leg because when he broke it she was too late in her treatment because she insisted that she would not spend any money and kept seeking free medical attention.

Hetty Green passed away in 1916 at the age of 81 in New York City, and entered the Guinness Book of World Records with the title of the meanest person in the world, and the cause of her d_eath was a stroke because of her quarrel with her maid because the maid asked for an increase for her low salary, she died and left behind a huge fortune, and her children did not inherit her stinginess They were so generous that her daughter built a free hospital with her money.