Dirty Sexy Money: Top 10 Billionaire Family Feuds

Forbes   |  Luisa Kroll   |   October 25, 2007 11:31 AM


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Rich, dysfunctional families are back in vogue on prime-time television with new shows like Cane and Dirty Sexy Money. But these fictional families have nothing on the real-life tales of feuding billionaire clans, wracked by generational schisms, sibling rivalries, jealousy and greed.

For these wealthy dynasties, there just doesn't seem to be enough money in the world to convince them to get along. Instead they turn on each other, and very often, take their relatives to court.

We've recapped some of the most riveting billionaire family sagas of the past decade, including a then 19-year-old member of the Hyatt's Pritzker family, who successfully sued her father and almost a dozen other relatives, and a father and his beauty-queen fifth wife suing his son over the family fortune. Exactly half of our favorite feuds involved American families; other fights took place or are taking place in Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, India and Switzerland.

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Karma coming home to roost for the profoundly wealthy but terminally challenged. Strange how money does not translate into wisdom, consciousness or a functional life.

While i would certainly enjoy having just 1% of their "average" fortune, i would never want to be one of these clueless, hysterical troglodytes.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:10 PM on 10/26/2007
- WigWamWag I'm a Fan of WigWamWag 8 fans permalink

Anna Nicole Smith was acting like the prototype gold digging whore who preyed upon on old rich men. She hit the jackpot with Mitchell.

There are far too many women (and some men) that are of this type running around.

Here no partriculoar order are "celebrities" who have fallen in "love" with people, who just conincedently are millionaires and are incredibly famous and rich...

Heather Mills
Kevin Federline
Anna Nicole Smith
Nicole Simpson (dead)
The woman who blackmailed Robert Blake and many others
Nancy Dell’Olio
Rachel Hunter
Coleen McLoughlin
Sharon Osbourne
Bianca Gascoigne
Catherine Zeta Jones
Evana - Donald Trump's wife.
Joan Collins' toyboy Percy something
Natalie and Nicole Appleton
Melania Knauss (Current Mrs Trump)
Sarah Ferguson
Yoko Ono Lennon

Binaca Jagger
All the wives of Hugh Hefner
There is at least a few more.

The core of the problem is revealed:
mensbiz : Golddiggers

The 2,000 member strong and rapidly growing Yahoo Group, Ex Husband Now My Slave, says it offers, 'A serious and supportive discussion forum about divorced or legally separated women to discuss how they have used divorce, child support, alimony and the courts to make their ex-husbands their financial slaves. Also how ex-wives have used the psychology of divorce to turn their ex-husbands into servants and slaves for their own amusement and enrichment. A forum for women to share their success stories in humiliating and bankrupting ex-husbands--and then moving on, with their ex's money, to better relationships with more attractive men. Humiliation. Revenge. Female power. Female financial domination. No doubt about it: For many women, divorce can be the road to the easy life--and wealth and riches. And the beauty of it all is that it's all done at the expense of your ex, who now is your financial slave. This list is about placing your ex in psychological and financial slavery. Discuss the tactics--and laugh about it--here.' That's a 'Golddigger,' at least one kind, perpetrators of paternity fraud are another.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:26 AM on 10/26/2007
- starrianna I'm a Fan of starrianna 47 fans permalink
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It's a pretty brilliant strategy, going for the rich guy.

I bet Lorena Bobbitt was wishing she could have had $10 to $20 million in alimony money instead of her husband's bloody penis and a pair of scissors in her hand!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:59 PM on 10/26/2007

Coming soon to CBS: "Everybody Hates Sumner"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:57 PM on 10/25/2007
- larry278 I'm a Fan of larry278 43 fans permalink

Why doesn't HUFFINGTON POST emulate GOOGLE and change FORBES's ranking by downgrading it in HP's formula?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:09 PM on 10/25/2007

We pay attention to the rich people because they steal from us.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:09 PM on 10/25/2007
- jmpurser I'm a Fan of jmpurser 148 fans permalink

Poor, poor little rich people. And here we were about to go wasting money on making sure poor children got health care!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:52 AM on 10/25/2007

I don't get the fascination with the rich.
For the most part, they're boring and stupid.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:41 AM on 10/25/2007
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