You've long suspected it, but a new study cinches it: Despite the twin temptations of gout and coke, in aggregate the rich live longer than the rest of us. Warren Buffett will bury us all. Jimmy Buffett too, for that matter.
Valentine's Day (the who-cares-iest of all the holidays) is right around the corner, so hopefully you've been saving up a Scrooge McDuck's vault's worth of gold to buy your significant other (or the body pillow that you call your "significant other") a proper gift. One particularly romantic option — if you're…
Those darn wealthy people! It's like every time you see them, they're doing some ridiculous new thing like lighting a cigar with a $100 bill, buying their way onto lifeboats on the Titanic or tricking a rube into selling his oil-rich land for far less than it's worth. And this time's no different. Now, our world's…
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If you are lucky enough to have financial means and plenty of leisure time and a lack of more pressing responsibilities, you may be able to focus all of your energies on designing your "lifestyle" to your own utmost satisfaction. Congratulations on your good fortune. This does not qualify as a "job."
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Meet Isabel Dos Santos. She is 40 years old. Forbes has just named her Africa's first female billionaire. Yes. Billion. Picture a million-dollar home. Now picture one thousand of them. A billion.
And there you have it. Pretty lady, interesting family, billions and billions of murky bucks. (The that most people in…], [http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--eDlaNOQW--/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_north,h_358,q_80,w_636/184kwhcxdsydejpg.jpg, (small)], [http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--g3O7ONw3--/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_north,h_180,q_80,w_320/184kwhcxdsydejpg.jpg, (medium)], [http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--rFWSR0BS--/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_north,h_77,q_80,w_137/184kwhcxdsydejpg.jpg, (large)])
Last night was a time of high emotional dudgeon. All that anxiety as we awaited the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, followed by the news that Obama had won a second term in office. If you're teenaged billionaire Peter Brant II, the Greenwich-raised son of paper magnate Peter Brant and supermodel Stephanie…
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You know how when you wear your ostrich-egg diamond necklace for your Saturday promenade down Main Street and all the drunk poors stir awake on their cardboard mats and sort of give you this really judgy scowl? Ugh, it is literally the worst, and if you're regularly besieged with the covetous stares of your less…
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If you're like me, the first time you saw the blog Rich Kids of Instagram, you decided you wanted to stop being a human for awhile, at least until the current gilded age blows over. But, annoyed salt-of-the-earth types with a petty streak, take heart: turns out, all that social network swapping of pictures of gold…
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Despite the millions of magnetic car stickers that demanded Americans Stand United, the opposite's happening. The wealthy highbrow elite are moving culturally further and further from their Cheeto dust huffing, sexy mudflap buying dirt-folk, and the cultural class divide's only going to widen. That is, unless we…
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Are you angry about Kim Kardashian? Are you angry about the rich not paying enough taxes? This is your jam! The Courage Campaign has launched a new commercial that shames Kim for making $12 million dollars in one year alone and getting taxed only one percent more than everyone else. It begins with the classiest of…
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Bad news, fatties. A new study from the Department of Making You Feel Bad has just released results of a new study that found that people with marriage on their mind don't want to date you. But there's a glimmer of good news among the bad: you can overcome your unlovable-ness by earning more money or going to school…
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Oh, gosh, of course! So: the Ferraris are mainly red, the Jaguars are dark green, and the Porsches are black. This is what a lifetime of selling ties got Ralph Lifshitz.
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The supermodel is in the French Riviera to celebrate her 40th. Her 65-meter yacht costs £350,000/week to charter, including its staff of 19. Prosecutors in Charles Taylor's trial yesterday announced they intend to subpoena Campbell. [Daily Mail, Earlier, Earlier]
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Neither Stephanie Seymour nor Peter Brant is talking to the media right now. That's what the obscenely wealthy ex-couple has lawyers for! Vanity Fair parses the parries and thrusts; any excuse to run nude (nsfw) photos of a supermodel, right?
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To mark the announcement of The Rachel Zoe Project's second season debut date, Zoe shared her 34 summer "must-haves" with Entertainment Weekly. Unfortunately, her little list left off most of the pricing information. We sought to rectify that oversight!
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Inquiring minds want to know: what are hedge fund wives wearing in the long morning after that is reality!!!???
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You know how sometimes, a man will give his wife a nice piece of jewelry or whatevs when she gives birth to a baby, just to be like, "Hey, sweetie, I know you feel a million kinds of gross right now and can barely focus on something as inanimate and utterly pointless — not to mention earlobe-depleting! — as earrings,…
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Sometimes when we're reading the NY Times "Thursday Styles" section we like to imagine the writers coming up with their ideas. In the movie in our mind, today's story by Natasha Singer about the democratization (read: "down-marketization") of plastic surgery began with an anecdote over lemon waters at Bergdorf's.…
