Here are a few of the worst cases of what could happen when someone has
too much money! 6 - Kiss and Tell
When you're not rich or famous, you don't have to worry about people publicly bragging about
spending the night with you. Well, you might, depending on the circumstance. Even then,
you probably don't have to worry about the entire world finding out who you were with.
Take the case of Sabrina Dudish. Sabrina met NFL wide receiver Julian Edelman at
a Boston club in 2015. He was celebrating his Super Bowl win,
and she was there to hook up or possibly fan-girl over Jules. Either way, the following morning,
she posted a picture of the two in bed. Jules, however, was fast asleep.
She used this picture on her Tinder profile to brag about her feat.
It was screenshotted tons of times and ended up circulating the wider internet.
The club they met at found out and ended up banning her for life. She would eventually
be banned from nearly every other club in Boston as well. The club owner posted
a massive rant on Facebook, telling her that he didn't even want her in the city anymore.
Of course, he doesn't have the power to ban her from the city of Boston.
In an interview with TMZ, she apologized for the whole thing and said she regretted it.
Over in the NHL, Czech superstar Jaromir Jagr spent an evening with an 18-year-old model.
Like Dudish, the model took a secret picture of Jagr. This time,
she used it as blackmail. She threatened to post the picture unless he paid her $2,000.
However, the young scammer overestimated how much Jagr would care. He was a single
guy who didn't care whatsoever. He said, "I don't care," and walked out.
5 - Lawsuits, Lawsuits, Lawsuits There are also less dramatic perils
that come with wealth. Lawsuits are one such danger. When everyone knows
you have money to spare, you're much more likely to end up getting sued.
After taking a picture where she slanted her eyes and squinted at the camera,
Miley Cyrus ended up being sued for an amount that could have potentially added up to 4 billion
dollars. According to court documents, Lucie J. Kim brought the suit against the pop star,
claiming to represent over a million people of Asian descent in the LA area. Kim
argued that she and others were victims of Miley's offensive actions. Miley
responded by saying that she was just making a goofy face and wasn't trying to be racist.
The 4 billion dollar number comes from Kim's specific claim.
She argued that every Asian Pacific Islander in LA County, about a million people,
is entitled to at least 4 thousand dollars from Miley. So, in total, it would be 4 billion. Maybe
Miley's face wasn't in good taste here. But one has to ask – was it worth $4 Billion dollars?
An even more ridiculous lawsuit was filed against Michael Jordan back in 2006. Allen Heckard sued
MJ, claiming that he was tired of people thinking that he looked just like him. The man was clearly
mistaken, and so were the people that thought he was MJ. While you could make a slim—and
we mean very slim—case that he looks like the NBA legend, no judge would ever go along with it.
Still, Heckard sued for millions, and it was a real lawsuit as well – he paid
the 206 dollar filing fee, even though he didn't have a lawyer. It's unlikely
that he could have found someone to go along with this level of crazy pro bono.
He ultimately dropped the suit, but at least he got his fifteen minutes, right?
4 - Trust issues
When you're filthy rich, you get to find out who your real friends are. The super-wealthy have to
try and figure out who's trying to help them and who's trying to scam them. And there are
countless stories of rich people getting ripped off by people they thought they could trust.
Billy Joel made the unfortunate mistake of hiring Frank Weber, his former brother-in-law,
as his financial manager. The two had been relatively close, and Frank was even the
godfather of Joel's daughter, Alexa. So he thought that signing away total managerial
control of his finances to Frank would be a good idea. Who better to trust than family, right?
Joel ended up suing him for 90 million dollars after discovering that he was spending his money
without his permission. Among many allegations in the 83-page lawsuit
was the claim that Frank took 10 million dollars and invested it in his own company.
Not exactly known for his sound judgments, Dennis Rodman was also scammed by someone he
put in charge of his money. Peggy Ann Fulford, his manager, was revealed to be overseeing 85
bank accounts and moving money around all of them to hide how much she was stealing from him and her
other clients. Peggy told Rodman that she went to Harvard and had made millions on Wall Street,
neither of which was true. She was also running 20 shell corporations in different
states to help her launder Rodman's money. This is only scratching the surface of Peggy
Fulford's celebrity-athlete scam. Check out this video to learn the full story!
3 - Gold diggers and Athletes The world's wealthy people also deal
with a particular kind of scammer—the gold digger. If you make 30,000 dollars a year,
gold diggers are one problem you won't have to worry about.
Last year, NBA player PJ Washington became the latest victim of notorious gold digger Brittany
Renner. She had a very public breakup with Washington that attracted social media attention.
Brittany, a fitness model, has dated James Harden, Drake, Lil Uzi Vert, Jamal Murray, Ben Simmons,
Trey Songz, Chris Brown, and Colin Kaepernick. A dating policy that involves only going after
millionaire athletes and artists is a good indication that someone may be a gold digger.
The two broke up just a few months after Brittany got pregnant. Having
a baby for the primary reason of collecting child support is
a classic gold digger strategy. Fans theorized that Brittany only dated the NBA player for this
exact reason. Brittany even wrote a book called 'Judge this Cover' that detailed
her past gold-digging experiences long before getting together with Washington.
Washington tweeted, quote, "You was faking it all along."
Even though the tweet was directed at nobody and deleted soon after,
everybody got the message. These six words were all it took to make the official gold digger
accusation. Unfortunately for Washington, the internet didn't have much sympathy for him. NBA
fans didn't seem to be sorry for him at all and instead roasted him relentlessly on the internet.
Twitter told Washington that he should get ready to start paying child support for the next 20
years. If Washington ever reaches the point where he can't handle this sort of Twitter trolling,
he'll have to dry his tears with the money from his lucrative NBA contract.
2 - Spoiled Rotten One of the potential downsides of being rich
is an increased chance that your kids will grow up spoiled. Kids who grow up never being told no
and never having to sacrifice anything can end up with some pretty insufferable personalities, to
put it mildly. If you're too rich, your kid could end up like Navid Sole if you're not careful.
Navid is an aspiring rapper who, like many aspiring rappers these days,
is focused more on fashion than on rapping. He's known for his affinity for high fashion.
He wears Versace everywhere, sleeps on Versace sheets, and even eats off of Versace plates.
Yes, Versace sells plates. The cheapest ones are 90 dollars, and they look like
some weird China that your grandma has in a drawer somewhere. Money can't buy taste, unfortunately.
When Navid isn't shopping for Versace or pretending to be a rapper, he's following
celebrities. Instead of waiting for artists to perform near him, he has enough money to
fly to wherever they happen to be hosting a concert. He always buys the most expensive,
most exclusive tickets possible so that he can meet whoever it is.
This is why there are so many pictures of him with various celebrities.
A documentary show featuring Navid revealed that he didn't know what a colander was.
He's never drained water from a pot after cooking something, which means he's never
made spaghetti. Having a son this out of touch should be considered a wealth-induced problem.
The same documentary also featured Fergus Prutton,
another rich kid who was baffled to discover that some people live off
less than 2,000 pounds a month. He said he typically spends that much on a night out.
A typical day for Fergus includes waking up in the afternoon, playing Xbox all day, and then partying
all night. He's technically self-employed. Apparently, spending your rich parent's money
is considered a job these days. Both Fergus and Navid got a dose of reality when they appeared
on a UK reality show called Rich Kids Turn Skint. And you thought the US had stupid reality shows.
In the show, rich kids like Navid and Fergus live with impoverished families
for a few days. In Fergus' case, he spent the weekend with a single mother of four
who lives on 1000 British pounds per month. For reference, Fergus sports a 6,000-pound Rolex.
On the other hand, Navid spent some time with a family in West London who lived on 50 pounds
per week for food. Navid would probably spend that much on Versace toothpaste,
which is thankfully not a thing… yet.
1 - The Perfect Targets When you're rich and famous,
you have to worry about something that most people probably don't – being kidnapped.
Criminals know that rich people are the best targets for kidnapping because they can get
a big ransom. It's just not as profitable to kidnap someone who works at McDonald's—unless
it's out of revenge because they were lying about the ice cream machine again.
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch had an intense experience in South Africa while filming the
BBC mini-series To the Ends of the Earth. On a day off from shooting,
he and some of his co-stars went scuba diving.
One of their tires blew out on the way, and they were stranded on the
side of the road. While they were stuck, they got ambushed by people with weapons.
They tied Cumberbatch up and put him in the trunk of a car. Then they drove into town,
used their cards to steal a bunch of money from an ATM, and then just left them there.
It's not just rich people who make good kidnapping targets. It's their kids
too. Perhaps the most famous celebrity child kidnapping case was in 1963 when Frank Sinatra
Jr. was kidnapped. The kidnappers drove him to a house in Los Angeles, where they locked him up
for four days. They demanded that his father, Frank Sinatra, pay them 240 thousand dollars.
And it worked. They got their money from Papa Sinatra. However, they didn't have much time
to spend it. Police arrested them after releasing Sintra Jr. Their court case was
a huge media sensation since Frank Sinatra was the biggest celebrity in the country.
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