Belle Burden accused of exaggerating hardship as divorce documents reportedly show heiress was far from broke

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Belle Burden is being called out for claims she made in her bestselling book, "Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage." The Vanderbilt heiress entered the literary world when she released her memoir in January, telling the story of the breakdown of her marriage to hedge fund executive Henry Davis. In the book, she wrote in painful detail about how she nearly lost everything after signing a prenup she said her lawyer had advised against, how she was almost left with nothing in the aftermath of the divorce — but according to The New Yorker, she may have exaggerated things. The publication was able to access the former couple's prenup, which was a focal point of the book. In "Strangers," Burden wrote that Davis had insisted their suggested prenup be changed so that, in case of divorce, anything