It's hard to find one that excites him a… )Stanger counsels customers to "date for love, just in a rich pond. Unfortunately, to sit on a committee you may have to donate $10,000 or so to the cause.Another possibility: Become a grantee yourself. Worse, most of them are currently married (though that does not necessarily discourage the most determined gold diggers).The picture gets even grimmer for men.
No more scrimping and scraping to make your annual Roth IRA contribution. Marry Millionaire is the first and largest site in the world to marry a millionaire, date a celebrity or meet wealthy, beautiful singles. )You will first need to identify the billionaires in your area (or their relatives) and learn their marital status. Study the society pages and ask around to learn which charities are best for your purpose.Shelby Hodge, society columnist for the Houston Chronicle, likes the American Heart Association and the M.D.
Then you'll have to study their businesses, hangouts, pets, favorite philanthropies, artists, music and vacation spots. But how realistic is it for you, an ordinary wage slave with no more ties to the jet set than a business trip to Cleveland last month, to even meet, much less marry, a billionaire?We scoured the how-to-marry-rich literature and talked to society watchers, upscale matchmakers and wealth experts.
The bride got a $35,000 engagement ring, a free Caribbean cruise honeymoon and an Isuzu Trooper. And no more worries about where your children will get into college (or how to pay for it).A seven-figure donation from your beloved to the school of your choice and your kids are in the door, even if they're no smarter than grapefruit.Sold?
(Yes, for all of the strides women have made in the workplace, most superrich gals do acquire their wealth through their relationships with men - and stereotypically, many of their husbands dump them when they reach a certain age.
That usually costs about $1,000, but doing so is worthwhile. You know the one: the beautiful (silicon-augmented) girl who spends all day shopping or sitting by the pool. Just type "charity events" and your city's name into a search engine and press "Go. Of course, there's another highly traditional path to acquiring wealth that isn't talked about quite as much these days: Marry money.Real money. A scant 38 women appear on the list of U.S. billionaires. )Take Janet Burkle, ex-wife of Ron, a Los Angeles supermarket mogul ($2.5 billion). Forbes magazine, which has made a cottage industry of compiling lists of wealthy folks, declared this year that there are a paltry 946 billionaires in the entire world.
Using a 14-point system to help hoi polloi ramp up their classiness, she says, her clients have married several multimillionaires in her 20 years in business.
Even if you wind up seated with a group of dowagers instead of wealthy bachelors, Hodge says, "those women can be your entry point. You do not marry for money because, at the end of the day, he could lose his money, and you end up with a toad. That entitles you to attend hosted exhibition previews and receptions where you can elbow your way into the elite.If you're willing to go without dinner for a few months, invest in a $1,500 membership in the Artist's Circle, which provides much greater mingling opportunities, including evening receptions, private viewings for major exhibitions and priority invitations to special events such as the biennial art auction.Christopher London, editor of the website ManhattanSociety.com, which covers cultural and philanthropic events in New York City, recommends that you attend as many gallery openings as possible. )Patti Stanger, founder and CEO of MillionairesClub123.com, with offices in California, Florida, Canada and the United Kingdom, charges nothing for women aspiring to marry well to be part of her pool of eligibles.But rich clients looking for love pay from $10,000 to $150,000, depending on the amount of territory the zillionaire expects her and her staff to cover in their search. Average age: 63.According to Merrill Lynch and CapGemini, a consulting company, there were 85,400 ultrahigh net worth individuals (UHNWIs) in 2005, the most recent year for which data were collected. The court forced her to make do with a pitiful $30 million, plus interest.New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, for example, when berated by Bill O'Reilly from the right and the Washington Monthly from the left, can sob into a pillow at the $9.5 million, 11,400-square-foot house he owns with his wife Ann Bucksbaum, a shopping-center heiress.Next step: Land the right job - one that allows you to circulate among the wealthy, of course. With Anna Agatka, Kate Barnett, Alycia Benn, Michelle Bien. (Google is a gold digger's best friend.
She graduated with a B.S. Of course you are. 1/12 Hi! 1 was supplanted by spouse No.
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She met Brin through her sister Susan, a Google marketing exec with - see, we told you! )Many of them - up-and-coming hedge fund managers, telecom barons and Internet tycoons - may have amassed only a hundred million or so but could easily hit the Big B in a few years.For male fortune hunters, there are widows and armies of ex-wives with humongous divorce settlements.