Posted on 05/17/2013 6:36:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Such are the quirks and foibles of the super-rich that even outwardly simple occasions, such as the celebration of a 60th birthday, can turn into rather complicated productions.
Take Cherie Blair’s arrangements to mark her husband Tony’s 60th earlier this month.
Knowing how keen he is to stave off the advancing years, she hired an Italian-based ‘detox chef’ to prepare an unimpeachably healthy dinner for the group of family and friends she flew to Europe to mark the event.
Then, she engaged the same chef to rustle up another menu of plain, if pricey, offerings for a dozen guests at their £5.75 million country pile in the Chilterns.
None of this comes cheap, of course.
But Cherie, who in an interview with the American business TV channel CNBC this week spoke passionately about the importance of women being financially independent of their husbands, was determined to foot the bill herself.
Despite the fact the former prime minister has earned a reputed £60 million in business since leaving office, 58-year-old Cherie, who is a successful barrister, is keen to make her own fortune, too.
However, she is discovering that the entrepreneurial road to great wealth can be littered with potholes....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Tony Blair, another socialist 1 percenter, who just bought a $1 million cottage for the in-laws near his $10 million mansion.
There seems to be a pattern of people that decry capitalism that make so much money from it
“Socialism for thee but not for me.”
So who is this ‘right wing’ American, Gail Lese, who is partner in this venture with Cherie Blair? I’ve never heard of her.
Ain’t Kleptocracy great?
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