Sunday, November 18, 2007

it's more than I dare to think about...

I'm sitting here watching the Forbes 20 Billionaire Heiresses show on E! and the top spot has been taken by Indian heiress Vanisha Mittal. Her father is worth 51 billion dollars. $51,000,000,000. If you're curious as to her father's career path...well, he's in the steel business. He was nice enough to throw her a wedding with a price tag of 60 million dollars.



The wedding invitations were 20 pages long, sent out in silver boxes. Her father flew in about 1,000 people to Paris (the location of the wedding) and he put them all up in various 5 star hotels for the 5 day celebration. He spent almost 2 million on wine itself. The highlight of the reception was a private performance by Kylie Minogue.



Her wedding gift from her father? A house in Deli worth 3 million for when she wasn't at her 55 million dollar house in London.

I just cannot even wrap my mind around that. I was thinking to myself..."What would I do with that kind of money?" I mean, that's not even like what would you do if you had a million dollars....pay off loans, buy a car, set the [potential] kids up with education funds. But 51 BILLION dollars? You need a good plan for 51 billion dollars. How to invest...how to most wisely use it...that's a ton of money. The only answer I came up with was quit my job.


...so it goes.

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