A self-described "spectacularly beautiful" 25-year old woman is drawing some flack for an ad she placed on Craigslist looking for a man earning at least half-a-million per year because "$250,000 won't get me to Central Park West."
Today's New York Times follows the story of the ad's provenance and the scandal that it has stirred. But being the helpful type, I am going to provide this damsel in distress (assuming it wasn't a prank) with some ideas on how to find the man of her avaricious dreams.
Money's Marlys Harris caused quite a stir a few months back when he published a piece called How to Marry a Billionaire. To infiltrate the world of the super-rich, you must be attractive, classy, cultured and have the right job: rich people, almost by definition, work extremely hard, and frequently meet their future spouses at work.
By making yourself the type of person who will be attractive to a billionaire, you are likely to make yourself the type of person would be attractive to anyone.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-08-2007 @ 6:29PM
katie said...
Who would want to marry a billionaire? You would need security around the clock, you would always be afraid for you kids and family. I am extremely happy in my obscurity. :)
10-08-2007 @ 6:29PM
susan said...
Money dont hurt but marry for love. Nothing worse than being married to someone you cant stand the site of or being with...Instead of her looking for money, she should be out making her own!!!
10-08-2007 @ 6:51PM
susan said...
You've got to be kidding..She is as shallow as Paris Hilton and she has her own money. Lady, I suggest instead of trying to find a man with money, start making you own...When you get enough, then you can get the trophy husband instead of being the trophy wife...You can be the one having all the fun instead of watching him with eyes behind your head all the time...
10-08-2007 @ 8:46PM
61857 said...
== How big are your hoots? Get implants! Super Size 'em Super Taranta!Twins!
like ANNA NICOLE SMITH
like Monica Lewinski
like Pamela Anderson
== Move to Las Vegas Nevada ...
you get laid every day plus the bonus upshot HIV, STD, et al., and you get to meet the corporate prostitutes as well now that's a bargain price ...
== Work for a bordello or whorehouse in Las Vegas Nevada now all the pilots go there on a regular basis and go home and share the HIV, STD with their wifes... I can name them...
10-08-2007 @ 10:59PM
wesellbookss said...
Yeah, billionairres are looking for dates on Craigslist .. you get what you pay for.
10-09-2007 @ 12:17AM
Sunshine said...
Money isn't everything, The love of my life came riding up on a bicycle to my front door. And he was not no billionaire. And neither am I but Neither one of us would trade one another for all the money in the world.
10-09-2007 @ 2:57AM
Yo said...
Well, different strokes for different folks.
Maybe if she is very attractive, intelligent, has a profession (not in prostitution) and she finds a "shallow" billionaire who will marry her, take care of her, etc.....how can she be sure that the "fire"from his wallet will follow him to the bedroom?? In any long lasting relationship, there MUST BE PASSION IN THE BEDROOM and ALL the money in the world.....can't bring it, if it isn't there.
If she can live like that.....keep shopping, I guess and eventually she will find herself a lover. So superficial this world is becoming. So sad.
10-09-2007 @ 8:25AM
Zebra said...
I've found that people who marry for money usually wind up earning it.
I guess this "spectacularly beautiful" young woman is looking for the short term as anyone who marries for looks (think Donald Trump) isn't going to stop looking for the next one just because they are married.
10-09-2007 @ 1:46PM
sarabel said...
I respect what this girl is trying to get for herself but she's going about it all wrong. Rich guys don't like desperate girls that don't know how to fend for themselves. that's all there is to it. Trumps wives all play that little submissive wifey role but I guarantee that without Trump they are very savvy go-getters that he would not find over ads like that. She needs to invest in a few good books on how to attain the kind of guy and life she wants instead of expect it to come so easy.
10-09-2007 @ 4:21PM
thedude said...
I don't meet her qualifications but a very good friend of mine does. He went though a phase in his 20's where he dated only women who were spectacularly beautiful. Now in his late 30's he has been involved for years with a woman who was a waitress when they met, is average looking, but has a spectacular personality and a sharp brain to boot. She has made just as many decisions in the companies operation as he has even though she's not on the payroll. Beauty has a thousand faces and only one of them is skin deep.