We once had limitless money. My husband had a hedge fund on Wall Street — his
tax return in one year alone was $50m. In New York, money is king; if you$’re
making a great deal of it, you’re a rock star. He would walk into
restaurants and people would point in admiration. I had previously been a
journalist, but it was considered prestigious for a wife not to have to
work. We owned three apartments in Manhattan — all for ourselves — and a
26-acre estate in Bedford, an affluent New York suburb. The Madison Avenue
shops weren’t good enough, so we’d fly to Milan; the local skiing wasn’t up
to it, so we had to go to Switzerland. A life of horse-riding, lunching,
travelling, entertaining, charity events and passing the children off to the
staff became the norm.
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