For Producers, Studios & Agents
The Crown meets Fargo. Real, and darker. A seventeen-year-old heiress vanishes from Washington twenty-six days before inheriting a $10 million estate, roughly $150 million today, and resurfaces in Caracas married and holding a newborn. Sixty years of court fights, four languages of press, and a family that kept every document. Developed as a six-to-eight-episode limited series.
The Teaser
Proof of tone and world, cut from the family's own 1965 archive. Every headline is real.
The Package
Underlying IP
Completed memoir manuscript in final edit, written by the granddaughter of the heiress. Sole author, sole rights holder.
Primary Archive
About 144 original documents, 1965 to 1966: The Washington Post, The Evening Star, BILD, BLICK, El Mundo, the Caracas press, court papers, letters, photographs.
Life Rights
One signature. Life rights, the memoir and the archive come from a single point of contact. No estate committee, no split chain of title.
Settings
Washington, Caracas, Zurich, 1965. Convent schools and coffee fortunes, oil-boom Venezuela, Swiss banks. Built for international co-production.
The Hook
The Washington Post covered the disappearance on its front page. Per the family records, the Post reporters who pursued it were both of the men who would break Watergate.
Why Now
The sixtieth anniversary of the disappearance. The story has never been told; the woman at the center of it never spoke. Her granddaughter is telling it first.
What Happens Next
Request the pitch materials: logline, series treatment territory, sample pages from the memoir, and supervised access to the archive. Materials go out within one business day.
Elisabeth Hitz · author & rights holder · Barcelona / remote · works in EN ES DE FR IT
Industry FAQ
Pilot script?
Yes. Completed pilot for a 6–8 episode limited series.
Archive access?
Supervised, for serious rights conversations. Twelve docs public now.
Chain of title?
One signature. Sole author and life-rights holder.
Languages?
EN ES DE FR in the archive; rights holder also works in IT.
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How life rights work here
What is available: life rights, the memoir manuscript, and supervised access to the family archive, from one person. Elisabeth Hitz, granddaughter of Anna Maria Hitz. There is no estate committee and no split chain of title.
The first package: logline, series territory, sample memoir pages, the teaser, and terms for supervised archive review. Materials go out within one business day of a serious inquiry. The free public chapter is at /chapter/.
What stays sealed until agreement: the full manuscript resolution, the pilot script, and the sealed document set. The public pages tease; they do not spoil.
Co-production. Washington, Caracas and Zurich are not set dressing. The 1965 press ran in English, Spanish, German and French, and Swiss custody law, Venezuelan estate practice and a Washington front page share one seventeen-year-old subject. That is natural territory for a US, European and Latin American co-production, and it is one signature for life rights, memoir and archive access.
To start, write to elisabeth@thehitzinheritance.com with your company and the format you are interested in: book, limited series, documentary or podcast.