Posted on 10/08/2012 7:18:39 PM PDT by 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.”
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What’s a ‘JAPS’, could someone ‘splain? (Did I spell it right?)
I agree with everything you said, Spetznaz. He’s looking in the wrong area, through the wrong prism.
If he will wait a while, Hillary Clinton might come available. There is hope!!!
No seriously! They are close enough in age and could help each other deal with their emotional baggage and other issues. They could join a gym together. The guy admitted that he blew 65 G's on dating services, so it's not like he is worried about his reputation. :)
RE: Hillary Clinton might come available.
He said he doesn’t like alpha females. Hillary-types are triple alphas if there ever was one.
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