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Wed Feb 10
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Uh oh! Someone's special little bum-bum didn't get into Brearley! It's that time of year!

"Why school admission tests are unfair and arbitrary and weed out the interesting kids... and why they should be replaced with totally different tests that weed out the lame kids, ammiright?"

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#tips #therich #thepoors #shutupcollege #oldschool #kids #privateschool Reply

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#herogram

Google's Chief of Fabulous Opens a Disco — In His Penthouse

We couldn't persuade Orkut Büyükkökten to invite us to his opulent birthday-and-housewarmingparty Saturday, but we won't hold it against him. After all, Google's ambassador to the gay party scene had to fit several billionaires between his new dance poles. More »

02/08/10

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By Ryan Tate

#mediacrack

Who's the Next Rich Sap to Blow His Wad on Journalism?

In your Byzantine Monday media column: searching for a rich media savior, a recipe duplication scandal, the future of robot media is $1 per hour, and STEPHEN A. SMITH is back in your area code. More »

02/08/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#sailofthecentury

Rich People Yachting Feud Disconnected from World

02/08/10

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#art

How to Turn Bronze Into Gold

The six-foot high 1960 Alberto Giacometti sculpture "Walking Man I" sold yesterday for $104.3 million, the most ever paid for a work of art. Unless you consider credit default swaps to be art, in which case this is trifling. [WSJ]

02/04/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#scams

How a Layabout Used the Huffington Post to Become a Rothschild

Click here to read How a Layabout Used the <em>Huffington Post</em> to Become a Rothschild

Meet Stefan "Monty" Roberts. You might know him better as Stefan de Rothschild, whose $2.5 million donation to Haiti relief was heralded by the Washington Post, who was quoted by Reuters and who, naturally, had a Huffington Post blog. More »

02/01/10

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By Ryan Tate

#heroes

Crazy Lady's Rant Is Astoundingly Coherent

Elderly dog-worshiping soothsayer and NY Post columnist Cindy Adams is relevant once again! Really though. Not only is she a hero to young journalists everywhere, she's a hero to us today, for mocking the Hollywood-industrial entitlement complex with admirable passion! More »

01/26/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#art

Banksy Does Sundance

A new documentary about superfamous/ semi-anonymous street artist Banksy is reportedly screening at Sundance this year, and Banksy pieces (another photo below) are popping up around Park City, Utah. After Mali and New Orleans, we guess he deserves a vacation. More »

01/20/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#therich

Rudy Giuliani Says Banker Bonuses Are Heroic

Angry eternal fearmonger Rudolph Giuliani was moved to tender words this morning by the sight of True Americans doing their part for our nation. Who did he gush about? Firemen? Soldiers? No: Wall Street bankers about to receive record bonuses. More »

01/12/10

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By Ryan Tate

#updates

Danny Pang: Suicide

California financier Danny Pang died at home last September just months after being accused of running a Ponzi scheme. Now the coroner's ruled that Pang killed himself with a massive overdose of painkillers, as suspected. [WSJ. Pic: AP]

01/12/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#hardquestions

Dying Like Casey Johnson: Should We Aspire to Do That?

01/11/10

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#therich

What This City Needs Is More Pandering to the Super-Rich

The New York Times' list of New Year's Resolutions from NYC notables included calls to help the poor, improve transportation, fund education, and bolster the city's image. Then there was evil billionaire plutocrat and opulent party-thrower Stephen Schwarzman's suggestion: More »

01/04/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#greed

The Rich and Dying Choose Money Over Life

Because Congress is populated by venal idiots, the estate tax expires on January 1, 2010 only to rise again on January 1, 2011. So rich old people everywhere are deliberately engineering their lives to end during the next calendar year. More »

12/30/09

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By John Cook

#therich

Let Them Eat Guns

Andrew Madoff—Bernie's son—has applied for a handgun permit. To fend off the angry poors, presumably! Once all the Goldman and AIG execs get their handguns, too, things will be back to normal around here. [NYP]

12/28/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#lawsuits

Jeffrey Epstein Real Tough When It Comes to Penis Lawsuits

Jeffrey Epstein penis-related legal woes update! The billionaire Bill Clinton pal is currently being sued by 14(!) women who are upset, in retrospect, that they sexually stimulated Epstein for money. He is therefore (legally) harassing them. Nice guy. More »

12/28/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#hoorayforhollywood

Don't Stop Believin'

In a move that will simultaneously fill waiters and barstaff in LA and NY with hope and bitterness, a Uruguayan who posted a three-minute, $300, YouTube film has been given $30m to make a sci-fi movie in Hollywood. [BBC]

12/18/09

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By Ravi Somaiya

#rumormonger

More on Meg Whitman's Fratty Princeton Son

A defacto bodyguard lived at Princeton with Griff Harsh to assuage the kidnapping fears of his mom, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, according to a longtime Gawker commenter close to the university. And the rich kid's suspension? Probably academic. More »

12/17/09

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By Ryan Tate

#holidaze

Conde Nast's Subsistence-Level Holiday Gift

Conde Nast's beautiful holiday gift this year: a $15 gift card to the Conde Nast cafeteria. Oh, you really shouldn't have! More »

12/17/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#therich

Steven A. Cohen's Giant Mansion Might Be Built on Sand

Here is a tip for the super-wealthy: Do not build a ludicrously large mansion if you may someday be accused of racketeering. This mansion will change from a symbol of your stupid wealth to a symbol of your outright stupidity. More »

12/16/09

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By Adrian Chen

#therich

America's Worst Gambler Also Great Tipper

Terry Watanabe, a big wheel in the Asian party favor import business, lost nearly $127 million gambling in Vegas casinos in 2007. But he gave fantastic tips. Call it even? More »

12/09/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#collapse