Caroline Rose Hunt

Caroline Rose Hunt (January 8, 1923 – November 13, 2018) was an American hotelier and heiress of the wealthy Hunt family. She was at one time the wealthiest woman in the United States. She is also known for having been the founder of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, which she opened in 1979.

Early life Caroline Rose Hunt was born on January 8, 1923, the daughter of oilman H. L. Hunt (1889–1974) and Lyda Bunker (1889–1955). She had six siblings: Margaret Hunt Hill (1915–2007), H. L. Hunt III (1917–2005), Lyda Bunker Hunt (born and died in 1925), Nelson Bunker Hunt (1926–2014), William Herbert Hunt (born 1929), and Lamar Hunt (1932–2006). Hunt said that as a child, she was unaware of the family's wealth until she found a Life magazine picture of her father, "with a caption that asked, 'Is this the richest man in the world?' " She then attended Mary Baldwin College, and art history.

In 1980, she opened The Mansion Restaurant on Turtle Creek.

Hunt had a line of bath and skin products called Lady Primrose,

In 2000, she wrote a novel, Primrose Past: The 1848 Journal of Young Lady Primrose. In 2013, she received the J. Erik Jonsson Award from the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas in thanks for a history of donations to United Way organizations.

Hunt was also a donor to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Tiffany Circle of the American Red Cross, The Heritage Foundation, and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. Hunt donated to many other Dallas cultural and educational organizations.

After they divorced in 1973, she married a second time, to Buddy Schoellkopf.