India, July 21 -- Kristin Cabot, the HR executive at the centre of the Coldplay cheating scandal, is married into one of Boston's oldest and wealthiest families. A report in the New York Post reveals that Kristin Cabot's husband Andrew Cabot is the sixth-generation owner of Privateer Rum and a man of considerable generational wealth.

The Cabot family is one of the one of the original "Boston Brahmin" clans that made its fortunes centuries ago. Today, the family controls a number of businesses, including the rum company that Andrew Cabot runs.

Boston Brahmins (also known as the First Families of Boston) are members of the old, wealthy and socially elite families of Boston, Massachusetts. The term originally referred to a group of upper-c...