Long Island tycoon blasts 'rip-off' matchmakers after spending $65G in search of love

New York Post ^ | 10/08/2012 | Tara Palmeri

[SeekAndFind]

Money really can’t buy you love — just ask this picky multimillionaire on Long Island.

Lonely securities trader Larry Greenfield, 47, has plunked down more than $65,000 on high-end matchmaking services — all in the hopes of finding his ideal wife.

After trying six different agencies over the past 12 years — and seeing 250 women — without success, the bachelor is blasting the expensive dating services as a “rip-off.”

But the matchmakers are firing back, saying Greenfield wants women who are simply out of his league.

Greenfield, who retired after a successful career at Opus Trading in Jericho, Long Island, says he would gladly trade his riches in exchange for finding a woman who meets his exacting standards: beautiful, thin, smart, Jewish, a sense of humor and from New York — but not an “alpha.”

“New York is a tough market for a guy like me. I thought I get the career, then I find the woman,” Greenfield told The Post.

“I’d trade it all in for a white picket fence, two kids, a dog. And you can have it all! I’d take a $50,000-a-year job, work until I retire.”

“I’m not a bad guy. I haven’t been to prison,” he said. “It’s just a very frustrating thing.”

As for the Manhattan matchmakers — who charge about $10,000 per year — Greenfield said: “You pay them up front and they don’t provide a service. They tell you how wonderful you are, whatever you want to hear.”

He complained when Barbie Adler, a matchmaker at Selective Search, set him up with a Knicks dancer.

“Do I seem like the New-York-City-dancer type of guy?” he scoffed.

He called VIP Life’s Lisa Clampitt’s women “West Village girls” who were too “artsy.”

[American Constitutionalist]

*** “I don’t want to take his money,” Spindel said. ***

" Oh sure, Ms Spindel."


26 year old Anna Nicole Smith marries 89 year old billionaire J. Howard Marshall II : but I love him, I really do, it's not about the money, honest.....

[American Constitutionalist]

Who says that it's him who is being the picky one ?

He's Jewish ? right ?

His family could be the one's who are putting the pressure on him to married the " RIGHT ONE " .


If that's the case, all the blame can't be put on him.

Sounds more like a Liberal BITTER woman who wrote this article.

[American Constitutionalist]

" NAD she has to be pretty '

Righhhhht

And I have seen women say " ohh my,, he has to be a HUNK "

So ? what's the difference ?

[TheWriterTX]

Jewish American Princess

[TheWriterTX]

Jewish American Princess

[SquarePants]

LOL. I know this guy. I used to work at Opus Trading, too. My gosh, I am laughing so hard.

[Revolting cat!]

Has anyone bothered to answer your question on who are the JAPS? People are so callous and unresponsive and unhelpful. I’ll answer: Jewish American Princesses.

[Nifster]

yup if you are on the down low you might need some help

[Nifster]

nothing....my point was that this guy is complaining because he is a tight assed nitt picker. no one will ever be good enough for him. he is a sad and miserable human being who will in fact die alone

[Revolting cat!]

After this article Larry will receive thousands of offers. All for free. Good for him. All it takes, folks, is notoriety! The matchmaking services will lose clients.

[Revolting cat!]

And the ill wishers here will each find his/her own hell in due time.

[American Constitutionalist]

Maybe, maybe not, he comes from a Jewish family.
It also could be possible that his Jewish Father and Mother have strict high standards for their son.
Believe it or not, there are still some people who stick to their traditional ways when it comes to marriage.
A man with that kind of money ? a High End Dating service is the last place he would want to go to because the probability is very high that most of those women are Gold Diggers... it's a sad truth.
Go to church, join a bowling league, take a college coarse in basket weaving, he can find a lot of nice fine ladies.

[Jonty30]

Ok, if nobody will answer that question, I will.

Jewish American Princess.

[Jonty30]

Im going to take a wild guess and say this guy is a whiner, who could not get along with anybody.

[Conservative4Ever]

JAP=Jewish American Princess

[American Constitutionalist]

JAPS is a derogative slang term used mostly by the US troops during WWII of the Imperial Japaneses forces.

JAPS, NIPS were common among troops during WWII.

[Rembrandt]

“The man is Jewish and wants to marry a Jewish lady.

Hey, maybe a nice Thai lady would want to convert...”

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I bet some of those ladies on Pat Pong
are Jewish, just ask.

‘You want Jewish? Five more dollah.’

[American Constitutionalist]

" yup if you are on the down low you might need some help "

Can't blame him for having higher standards when you have this:

OBAMAPHONE LADY:


Got'sta a free Fhone by the government because Obama wants our vote.
You's on dasability, social security, you get'sta OBAMAPHONE.

[KevinB]

Has anyone bothered to answer your question on who are the JAPS? People are so callous and unresponsive and unhelpful.

Only about six times before your post. The rest of us figured that six times was enough, so we didn't bother.

[Revolting cat!]

I suppose it’s too late to add a laugh track after the fact.