On the more personal side, Conrad Hilton did not consider marriage until 1925, when at the age of
38 he married Mary Barron — just one month following the grand opening celebration for the Dallas
Hilton hotel. They had three children, Conrad N., Jr., William Barron and Eric Michael. However, the
couple divorced in 1934, a casualty of the Depression, according to Conrad Hilton. A fourth child,
Francesca, was born during his second marriage, to Zsa Zsa Gabor. On Christmas Day, 1977, also his