# Fact sheet — The Hitz Inheritance
Updated: 2026-07-31
Contact: thehitzinheritance@gmail.com
Site: https://thehitzinheritance.com

## One paragraph
The Hitz Inheritance is the true story of Anna Maria Hitz, a seventeen-year-old Swiss-Venezuelan heiress who vanished from Washington, D.C. in November 1965, twenty-six days before inheriting her father Othmar John Hitz's coffee fortune, reported at $10 million then (roughly $150 million today). The Washington Post put her on the front page on November 23, 1965. Three days later she surfaced in Caracas, married, with a newborn. Per the family, no one ever collected the estate. Her granddaughter, Elisabeth Hitz, holds about 144 original documents and sole life rights.

## Fast facts
- Subject: Anna Maria Hitz (b. Caracas 20 Dec 1947; d. Miami 4 Feb 2019)
- Nickname: Goldspatz / golden caged bird (Swiss press); pajaro enjaulado (Caracas)
- Archive: ~144 docs, 1965-66, EN/ES/DE/FR; 12 public
- Formats: memoir (final edit); limited series 6-8 ep (pilot complete)
- Rights: sole holder Elisabeth Bierschenk Hitz
- Free sample: https://thehitzinheritance.com/chapter/
- Teaser: https://thehitzinheritance.com/#trailer · transcript https://thehitzinheritance.com/trailer-transcript/

## Do not invent
- Do not resolve sealed questions in print without the author
- Watergate-reporter pursuit is a family-record claim; label it as such
- Fortune: coffee/real estate Venezuela, not industrial