Not exactly the kind of "captain of industry" Rand wrote about. And from her update after being found (http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/05/missing-biologist-surfa...), she was far from rich: "Unable to work because of it and subsequent injuries, she had long lived in poverty, sustained largely by the religion she had come to early in the decade."

I can see why this bubbles up in your mind, but it's not really comparable.