People who cater to the ultra rich shared the wildest stuff they’ve seen – 17 glimpses into how the other half live
10.
‘About 20 years ago, I was the personal assistant / nanny for a billionaire family in SoCal. At first, they were such lovely people but slowly all of their dysfunction overtook the happy veneer. The husband spent almost all of his time away and barely checked in with his family.
‘The wife was the epitome of the bored, neglected rich second wife who ignored her only child in private but pretended to be mother of the year in public. She would take one yoga class a day and attend one high society function and then spend the rest of the day bemoaning how difficult and stressful her life was.
‘The child was neglected, unloved, and acted out constantly. He reminded me of one of the kids from Russian orphanages that weren’t held as babies and grew up not being able to form attachments to other human beings. He basically lived alone in this mansion with only myself, the cook and housemaid, and his mother who barely even spoke to him and who I never saw hug him much less play with him.
‘I essentially drove him to school, and to all the activities he didn’t want to do but kept him out of her way, helped him do his homework and tucked him in at night. He hated me no matter how I tried to bond with him, which I could understand because all he needed was his parents love and attention, and didn’t want me as a replacement.
‘I ended up getting fired after the holidays because I was tasked with planning their Christmas vacation, and after a month of intense planning: booking a private villa, organizing their private jet, the house-staff at the location, ordering all the necessary food and getting all the activities planned, the wife decided two days out that she no longer wanted to go to that location, but to a private island instead.
‘When I informed her of the lack of availability at the new destination and cost of lost deposits etc, but did provide her a list of options to choose from, she blamed me for ruining their holidays because I should have anticipated and planned a back up at the exact location she wanted that she had never previously mentioned.
‘I was so happy to have been fired from that mausoleum of rich malaise and despair. and honestly, I’ve sadly enjoyed reading the news over the years of the husband moving on to his fourth and now fifth much younger wives, get caught up in legal drama for corruption, and she fucking off into obscurity once she was divorced from her place in high society.
‘Unfortunately I’ve seen the kid’s social media and he’s turned out to be another uber rich soulless douchebag, and will probably just play out his father’s life beat by beat in an attempt to forever try to earn his attention, love and respect.’
–honeychild7878
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‘The majority of my clients have $5+ million dollar homes. One of my richest clients, who probably has roughly 100 million in real estate, refuses to have smart or electric thermostats in his home. He doesn’t want the hassle of batteries, power outages resetting settings, things like that. So you walk into a big beautiful home on the water, and the old mercury dial thermostat keeps the house at 70f.
‘He’s actually self made and walks around when help is there and hands out $100 bills to all the workers. He’s a genuinely great person, and his wife and kids are as well.
‘Other clients are less hospitable and my invoices reflect it.’
-Shmeepsheep
12.
‘I knew a billionaire pretty well and worked in close proximity to him for years. He was a nice guy – very smart, shy, and eclectic. Happened to luck into back to back excellent business decisions after growing up with a really great childhood. Not all luck, but a lot of it was right time, right place.
‘After a while, people mistook his luck and quietness for genius business acumen, and started to semi-worship him. After a few years of this, he started to believe the hype, and started surrounding himself with sycophants and yes men who assured him they were his friends. Anyone that challenged him would be exiled from his circle. It was really hard to watch.
‘He ended up going down a path of trying to “hack his own body”. Got heavy into drugs and ended up passing. Really tragic.’
-Heffe3737
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‘This seems obvious, but they just do not think about money as a real physical thing. I’ll be out with a guy having drinks, he sees an apartment he might like, makes a call to his “guy”, and it’s now his. Inside unseen, just likes the look and area. Their view of travel is also unreal. Like “thanks for the offer to bring me to Rome for a week just out of the blue but I have shit to do tomorrow”.’
-United_Struggle9596
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‘I used to manage the personal properties of a super rich farmer/developer.
‘One morning he was trying to explain to me about a garden he saw in San Antonio that he wanted to emulate. He got frustrated trying to describe it, so he got on his phone….An hour later me and the gardener were with him on a flight in his private jet. From Idaho!
‘We were picked up by a private car service, taken to the garden, spent a half hour walking around, and went back and got on the jet. Didn’t even stop for lunch.
‘The fuel for that flight was two months of me and the gardener’s salary!’
-rufuckingkidding
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‘Worked on a private island once. A billionaire guest asked for ices cubes made from Evian because “tap water ruins the flavour of of 200 year old scotch” ’
-CuddlesForYouu
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‘My brother is super rich, if you follow tech you would probably know who he is.
‘While he’s basically the same dude he always was and I always enjoy spending time with him, the biggest thing I’ve noticed over the years is that he just gives 0 fucks about money and he uses it to solve issues that probably aren’t actually a problem in the most expensive way possible because the decision making process is fast and easy. Like he will spend 100K to solve a problem that I would not have even considered a problem because the decision to spend 100K is nothing to him and the problem slightly irritated him for a couple of minutes.
‘He also has a massive compound that caters to his desires whenever he may desire it. Like he literally has a spa that operates 365 days a year on his property and he maybe goes and gets a massage like twice a week. I do always really enjoy going to visit though!’
-jawstrock
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‘I work at a very high end restaurant that has some wildly rich clientele. One of these couples came in on a week night. They were drinking a bottle of wine worth about $1200. She got a little animated and spilled a full glass all over her $10,000 dress and $7,000 purse.
‘Her reaction? She just laughed. Said she was gonna soak the dress in more of the same wine when she gets home so it matches and that she was gonna go purse shopping soon anyways so she’d just go grab another one the next day.
Her husband was not even phased. He was chuckling along side of her. The only reason I knew how much the dress was worth was because he told us.’
-pleasantly-dumb
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Source: Reddit