Muffie Cabot

Mabel "Muffie" Wentworth Brandon Cabot (; born c. 1936) is an American heiress and socialite. During the 1980s she served as social secretary to Nancy Reagan. She is the mother of actress Ali Wentworth. Early life A member of an American family descended from passengers on the Mayflower, Cabot grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was educated at various boarding schools, and graduated from Smith College. Her father, Richard Hobart, was an art collector and an investment banker with Loomis Sayles while her mother, Janet Elliott Wulsin, was a former explorer who undertook several National Geographic Society-financed expeditions to Tibet and Outer Mongolia. Career and marriages Wentworth and Brandon eras Cabot's first husband was Eric Wentworth, a correspondent for The Washington Post. The couple divorced in 1964. After divorce, Cabot remained in residence at the pair's Embassy Row home now known as Whitehaven. In 1970 she married British national Henry Brandon, a longtime Washington correspondent for The Sunday Times once known as "the most powerful foreign correspondent in the USA". During this period the couple were known for hosting parties that were the highlight of the Washington social scene.