Amanda Hearst (born January 5, 1984) is an American heiress, fashion model with IMG Models agency, and heir to William Randolph Hearst's media empire, which reports $5 billion a year in annual revenue. She is the daughter of Anne Hearst, niece of infamous kidnap victim Patricia Hearst and great-granddaughter of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Amanda attended Choate Rosemary Hall, a boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut. She graduated in 2002, enrolled at Boston College, and later transferred to Fordham University where she studies Art History.


Cousin of Gillian Hearst-Shaw and Lydia Hearst. Her father is Richard McChesney, who separated from her mother before Hearst's birth.