The Hermès heir is not the only one with a strange choice of inheritance.

The owner of an $11 billion fashion fortune plans to adopt his 51-year-old gardener and make him the official heir to a portion of his wealth from the Hermès dynasty, according to multiple sources. Nicolas Pusch is thus added to the list of extremely wealthy people making surprising decisions about who to bequeath their wealth to.

Pouche, who has no spouse or children, plans to leave about half of his vast fortune and real estate portfolio to his gardener and his family, the Swiss newspaper Tribune de Genève reported. The decision came amid alleged disagreements within the family over business decisions.

The Push fortune is estimated to be around $11.5 billion. He allegedly plans to leave half of his fortune to the gardener and has already given him a property in Morocco and a villa in Switzerland, totaling nearly $6 million.

This kind of decision is rare for families with rich legacies.

Examples of other rare inheritance arrangements

In 2007, a Portuguese nobleman named Luiz Carlos de Noronha Cabral de Câmara allegedly 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 from the phone book well over a decade before his death.

A 1920s Canadian lawyer left a significant portion of his fortune to a trust to be liquidated 10 years after his death and given to the woman in Toronto who had the most children between 1926 and 1936. In the end, four mothers benefited from the scheme, receiving $110,000 each (the equivalent of about $2.4 million today).

Now known as the "Shutterbug of Dogville," a Wisconsin resident named Archibald MacArthur left just $5 each to his family members at his death in the early 1900s and left the rest of his money (about $3 million in today's value) to a man he once started on a park bench.

One of the wealthiest men in Michigan didn't pass his fortune on to his family until a century after his death. Wellington Burt included a stipulation in his will that his $110 million fortune could not be passed on until he was 21 after his last surviving grandson died, and in 2010, 12 people inherited the money.

Earlier this year in New Hampshire, a secretive multimillionaire decided to leave his entire fortune - $3.8 million - to the town where he had lived for decades.