Dirty Sexy Money: Top 10 Billionaire Family Feuds
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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Forbes | Luisa Kroll | October 25, 2007 11:31 AM