'Hermes heir gives billions to gardener: the unusual legacy choices of the super-rich'
'to the gardener half of his fortune. He has already been given property in Morocco and a villa in Switzerland worth a combined total of nearly $6 million. This is a rare occurrence in families with vast fortunes, but unique inheritance methods are no exception, even for the super-rich.
Examples of unique inheritance patterns
In 2007, Portuguese nobleman Luiz Carlos de Noronha Cabral de Camara left his bank accounts, a 12-room apartment in Lisbon, a house in Portugal, a luxury car and two motorcycles to a group of 70 randomly selected people when he had been gone for more than a decade. In the early 1900's, an American lawyer left a significant portion of his fortune to a trust to be liquidated in 10''secretly acquired 23% of the company between 2001 and 2013. To prevent a takeover by LVMH (which is owned by the world's second richest man, Bernard Arnault), members of the Pouche family created a holding company that now owns more than half of Hermès, but Pouche retains his stake. Arnault and LVMH eventually agreed to sell their shares. In 2014, Pouche resigned from the company's supervisory board, and a spokesperson for the company said the reason for his resignation was that he "felt he had been under pressure for several years from members of his family, who attacked him from various angles.
Curious examples of inheritance for pets
For the super-rich, inheritance doesn't need to be present''modeling shoots during her career. When "Star Trek" creator Jeanne Roddenberry's widow Jeanne Roddenberry died in 2008, she allegedly left about $3.3 million to her animals.The Guinness Book of World Records includes a cat named Bleki, who is recognized as the world's richest feline - she inherited about $12.5 million when her owner, antiques dealer Ben Rea, died in 1988. Rea left no inheritance to his family.
Namous celebrities who don't plan to inherit children
Number of celebrities have said they do not plan to pass on their fortune to their children for a number of reasons. George Lucas, the billionaire creator of the "Star Wars" universe, said the proceeds from the sale of the $4.5 billion franchise to Disney will go to educational purposes, not''for his four children. Lucas is also a member of the Giving Pledge campaign, a charitable endeavor that encourages the world's wealthiest people to donate the majority of their wealth to charitable causes. Among the billionaires who have taken part are founders Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, Ilon Musk, Larry Ellison, MacKenzie Scott and Mark Zuckerberg. Other celebrities who have said they will leave their money elsewhere include Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, Daniel Craig, Gordon Ramsay and Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs.
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