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#1
08-05-2002, 03:59 PM
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Anna Nicole Smith Scenario: Would You Do It?
Not necessarily the exact scenario. Basically, you are relatively young and unattached, and some 90 year old billionaire or billlionairess wants to marry you. The man or woman is a decent person who wants a younger person to spend their final years with. You have an ironclad prenup drawn up guaranteeing that you will not be ripped off in the will and cannot be disposed of by divorce - IOW you get a cool $50-100M after the spouse's lifetime runs out. All you have to do is be a loving spouse for this person who is three times your age. Do you do it? I think I would.
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#2
08-05-2002, 04:05 PM
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I should add that the hypothesis assumes no deception involved - you are not convincing the guy that you would do it even were he not rich. It is understood that you think the person is a decent person whom you might marry were it not for the extreme age difference, and that money is overcoming that particular objection.
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#3
08-05-2002, 05:03 PM
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Absofrickinglutely!!!
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#5
08-05-2002, 06:13 PM
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This reminds me of the story, purportedly about Winston Churchill and a lady at a party:
Sir Winston: Madam, would you sleep with me for a million pounds? The Lady: Why, I guess that I would. Sir Winston: How about one? The Lady: Well I never! What kind of a lady do you take me for? Sir Winston: I thought that we'd agreed on that; now we're just haggling on price.
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#6
08-05-2002, 09:03 PM
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No. Absolutely not.
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#7
08-05-2002, 09:25 PM
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what ShibbOleth said.
Unless I was the elderly billionaire. 
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#9
08-06-2002, 11:08 AM
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Possibly. Not if I loathed them though. There would have to be some genuine regard and commitment even if it was along the lines of faithful servant. I don't feel there is anything intrinsically immoral about such a relationship although its a definite tongue-wagger (scandalous).
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#11
08-06-2002, 11:56 AM
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hmmm...
my friends and i often discuss what we would do for 100K...not to mention 100M!  there would have to be at least some level of attraction. if i couldn't stand the person, then i'm not sure i could put up with it. at that point, i'm just being a ho-bag. but, if i enjoyed the person's company and we got along, then why not. i would like to think that money would become a secondary, bonus issue only. but we are talking about 50-100M...now that's not chump change. i think a primary factor would be public opinion. everyone would assume that you'd only be there for one reason...whether that was the case or not. i think (after time) that that could wear someone down in a big-way. of course, we are talking 50-100M...for that amount of money i think i'd be okay telling them to go F themselves as i drive into my mutli-million dollar home with a car that cost more than their home. (glad i'm not a materialistic s.o.b.  )so, the short answer is heck-ya. where do i signup?
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#12
08-06-2002, 03:59 PM
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How is this different from prostitution?
Um, it is the highest end of that business that I can see. You live the grand life, have one elderly client (rather than multiple people), and you are guarenteed a big ass bonus at the end of your service. If this is selling my soul, body, mind, whatever. I will take comfort in the fact that I worked hard to make sure that old guy was happy and got what he wanted. My life would still have plenty of good years. My family and friends can shame me all they want, but I would bet when that money is all mine they would not give me any problems when I pay bills for them. There is just No Way someone will make this a bad deal to me. Bring on the guy that wants me to have his money, I will try my best to keep my place with him.
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#13
08-06-2002, 04:48 PM
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If I were the elderly man, and I knew some young thing was only marrying me for my money, I would make sure that she earned every bit of that money.
IfyaknowwuddImean. As the young thing, I would probably do it, if I did really have somefeelings for the old broad.
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#15
08-06-2002, 05:32 PM
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"Why, your nothing but a WHORE!"
"I prefer to consider myself a 'caregiver'." "But they're 3 times your age!" "I choose to look at the situation in a more positive light." "By God Man! How could you possibly?" "Because I would be thoroughly intoxicated the whole time!" If they lived 5 years and you got 100M, thats an average of 20m/year! You Betcha! (Ya!) Side benefit: After you collect, you become the rich dude, and can have whatever little hot toy you wanted, but for a very much longer time to enjoy it! ________________ Damn! I have forgotten to not become drunken again!
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#17
08-07-2002, 07:05 AM
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Quote:
Come on folks, this is a cakewalk. How often could a 90-something year old possibaly want it?
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#18
08-07-2002, 08:38 AM
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Well, it's tempting, but it morally bugs me because I believe of marriage as a fairly sacred institution.
I'd propose rather that he hire me as a companion and caregiver. I'll stay with him and travel with him and all the rest, for a regular monthly salary. He can make it generous. Very generous. Then it's a job. He gets what he wants, I get money I've earned, everyone's happy. This leaves the sex thing up in the air. Surely a man of 90 isn't looking to get laid? That's what I'd hope.
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#19
08-07-2002, 01:40 PM
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Hell yes! In a heartbeat.
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#21
08-08-2002, 01:59 AM
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Gay, straight, in love with certain sorts of animals... I couldn't care less.
I grew up poor. I am hoping to alleviate that problem as I get older. this would do it. No questions asked, no doubt about it. Then again, there isn't a lot I woldn't do for money.
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#22
08-08-2002, 05:48 AM
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No way, Jose.
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#23
08-08-2002, 07:02 AM
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You get $100m
You spend $20,000 on therapy $5,000 on mouthwash. $100 on a deed poll to change your name $1,000 on an aeroplane ticket to somewhere they've nevr heard of you. You're still well ahead of the game. Is there a form I need to fill in?
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#24
08-08-2002, 08:29 AM
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#25
08-21-2002, 08:52 AM
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Along these lines: Berlin Playboy Offers Jackpot to Final Bedmate
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#26
08-21-2002, 09:47 AM
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[ponders slightly different question] Would I marry Anna Nicole Smith and make hot monkey love to her for a hundred million samoleans? Hmm. I actually prefer her current chunkified body to her slimmer look but is that enough? Her face wouldn't exactly stop a clock but the clown makeup would give me nightmares for years. I break out in a cold sweat just viosualizing the shroud of turnin thing on the pillowcases. The little girl bimbo voice and inane banter would kill it for me I think. I've learned I vastly prefer smart, educated, voluptuous blondes to dingbats. Does she talk like she does on the E! show in her personal life. A big risk. Maybe she's witty and intelligent in private but if I'm wrong I'd be f***ed like Burgess Meredeth with his broken glasses in some alternate universe made for cable Twilight Zone episode. <shudder> I'd have enough money for therapy, moving where no one knows me and a crate of brillow pads to rub myself raw but could I go through with it? Gotta be a solution. Could be something as simple as a big red rubber ball gag. ! That works on so many levels.
 [/PSDQ]I'll do it
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#27
08-21-2002, 03:13 PM
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In answer to the "How is this different from prostitution" question.
This whole "marrying for money is bad" is a uniquely modern Western civilization thing. Even in Jane Austen's time, a major consideration was the guy's income (although by that time they had moved to the notion that there should be some sort of Luv involved). Marriages were often arranged in terms of the financial benefits they would bring (dowries or land). There was no thought that this was prostitution (although there were plenty of instances where one or the other party wasn't too happy with the deal). It was also common for marriages to occur with age differences that would be considered scandalous nowadays -- men in their 40's and 50's marrying much younger women. Women died in child birth and men needed someone to run the household and raise the kids. What you are proposing here is just the far end of the slippery slope -- great wealth, pure mercenary motive, short duration, and no intent of raising a family or producing an heir. Certainly any pre-existing heirs would object, but provided you can make a case for no dementia or undue influence on the part of the new husband/wife, there should be no legal or moral objection. The real problem, of course, is the "undue influence/dementia" clause. By the time someone hits their 90's, it's an easy case to make that they are not necessarily as rational as they once were.
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