Drames chez les riches

Money doesn't buy happiness... Welcome to the ultra-rich. Their apparently gilded world can prove a nightmare. This spirited book is a compilation of stories that are as unbelievable as they are true, as dark as they are funny. Take, for example the Gettys, the American billionaires who grew rich on oil: Getty paid the ransom demanded by his grandson's kidnappers only under duress, and even then he set an interest rate! The "Black Widow" Patrizia Reggiani, ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, landed 26 years in prison for bankrolling her former husband's assassination. Hans Rausing, heir to the Swedish packaging group Tetra Pak and a close friend of Prince Charles, found his wife dead of an overdose in their bedroom. He left her body to rot for two days and keept taking drugs... Patty Hearst, Lily Safra, Robert Durst, Hélène Pastor, the Livanos sisters, the Marquise de Moratalla, all these names are synonymous with wealth and very dark tragedy....