julien 's son barclay died in 1949 , his brother garland in 1951 cortland 's son grady died the same year as garland , after a fall from a horse in audubon park his mother , amanda grady mayfair , died only shortly after , as if the death of her beloved grady was more than she could take of pierce 's two sons , only ryan mayfair 'knows the family history ' and regales the younger cousins many of whom know nothing - with strange tales irwin dandrich died in 1952 however , his role had been already filled by another 'society investigator , ' a woman named juliette milton , who collected numerous stories over the years from beatrice mayfair and the other downtown cousins , many of whom lunched with juliette regularly and did not seem to mind that she was a gossip who told them everything about everybody and told everybody everything about them like dandrich , juliette was not a particularly vicious person indeed , she does n't even seem to have been unkind she loved melodrama , however , and wrote incredibly long letters to our lawyers in london , who paid her an annual amount equal to the annuity which had once been her sole support .