“a bit thick to call it greed”.... You are a bit thick to call stealing enough to buy a Florida mansion and send his wife on Paris 40kEuro shopping days anything BUT greed! Guess the IQ numbers don’t account for common sense in your household... ymmv
The Paris shopping spree item is interesting. It does not seem to have a source. Some claim it was from a French publication, but as I understand it no such source can be found. Note: if it was a thing in France it would have been repeated and expanded on in the French press, most likely, being a scandal.
At this point it seems like a game of telephone on the internet.
If you have a French source, link it. I can read French quite well.