Only rich people get assassinated. Poor folks just get murdered.
I’d take the $10mil. Even invested in the most low-risk treasury bonds, that provides a permanent annual income of $500,000. That may not be enough to live a fantasy life, but I can have just about anything I want for me and my family, and never need to work a day in my life. Plus, that kind money leaves a lot of room for further investment, so the $10mil could become $20mil or $40mil after not too long.
$100M. I’m neither attractive enough or exciting enough for the press to spend much time on me. I just don’t see the paparazzi wanting to hang out in 4 feet of snow to report that I wore a dirty t-shirt and played World of Warcraft all day.
I want to say $100 million, and to hell with paparazzi and intrusions on my private life…but I like my private life. I don’t think I’d want to be under a microscope, having to account for every single thing I say or do or wear…
So I’ll just take $10 million.
I figure if I had $10 mil, everyone would know anyway, but I wouldn’t have enough to really keep myself away from the hordes of people hitting me up for money. With $100 mil, I could hire people to, um, disabuse people of the notion of bothering me. Plus, it would be easy enough to become anonymous with $100 mil;.
And you couldn’t do that with 10 mill?
Join the club! I think the club where the difference does make a difference is minascule!
I’d take $100, 000 happily!
Well, I know someone well with far more than $100MM and it’s not like he has hordes of people hitting him up for money all the time. And people who know him do know his net worth and it’s very easy to find out a pretty close estimate even if you don’t know him. But it hasn’t brought a long line of crazies harassing him.
So since it doesn’t seem to be an endless trial trying to avoid people hounding him for money, I’d say it would be fairly easy for me to do it, so I’d take the $100MM.
Gimme the 100 mil. I’ll step aboard my yacht and nobody will ever see me again anyhow.
Ditto. And besides, if people get to be too much trouble …
Oh, yeah. 
Although you do realize, U.R., that the 100 mil isn’t even close to enough money to get that yacht, let alone pay its maintenance. Still, good idea, though. I’m sure a more modest $10 mil yacht would accomplish the job …
I’ll take the ten million and privacy, please. I can do more with ten million than half the people in the world could do with a hundred million, though it may take some time.
I’ll take the $100 million. That would mean I could give $50 million to some really deserving charities, and once I’d done that, people would think I’d given most of it away, and I could just go on enjoying the rest in peace.
Sht, I wouldn’t mind the world knowing I have $10 million.
Nenner nenner nenner… 
Yeah, I figgered that was shooting a little high to start with. Besides, just the number of crew required would be too many people around for my comfort.
I’d take the $100,000,000. I’d then buy about a 1,000 acres of northern WI wilderness and build an estate with high walls and no acess by road. I don’t care who knows I have the money - they’d need a helicopter to hit me up for it. Chances are, if they have a heli, they aren’t hurting for money anyway.
I’ll take the 100M. I could do a lot of good for a lot of people with that (myself included, of course), and if I lost some privacy, well, I’d get security and a staff, dammit! 
$100 mil. Just because they know doesn’t mean I have to pander to their requests.
$100 million please. All you said was that everyone would know, you didn’t say that they would care. Besides, this is LA…millionares aren’t exactly uncommon.
I don’t care if others know. I have no problem telling them that they can’t have my money. I’ll take the 100 mil.
I think I know where the OP was going with this, as I have a friend who won just over half a million a few years back in Powerball here in Georgia. He was completely blown away by just how many people came out from the cracks, asking, no BEGGING, for money. He got calls and visits from family members he never knew he had. Requests for donations from various organizations jammed his mailbox to the point where he couldn’t sort through it all and legitimate mail would have to be tossed along with the junk.
He was worn down, not just by phone calls, but by knocks on his door at all hours of the day and night. People are relentless when they feel a desperate need to get your attention. You can just about forget about appeasing your family, whether you give them money or not. There will always be someone that thinks they should have gotten more than this one, or feel like they didn’t get enough.
Having said that, I’d take the 100 million anyway. I’d give a little and tell them I blew the rest on drugs or something. I’d deal with it.
If the question were: Would you take 10 million and no one would ever find out, no matter what (they’d have to be lulled by some supernatural power that makes them ignore my 5 million dollar home) you bought or did, or would you take 12 million and everyone knows? I think that might be a little more interesting.
I’d take the 100M.
I’d drop 25M into an account and the yearly interest generated by it would be given to a board of trustees. This board of 5-11 people would all have equal stakes to half the interest, the rest of the interest has to be given to a worthy recipient(s) by majority vote. Who’s on this board of trustees, you ask? The first 5-11 people to ask for money (other than my Mom and sister). I’ll take the remaining 75M and do what I have to do to make it last for a very, very long time. And if anyone asks for cash I’d have to say that I gave it to a board of trustees and to talk to them.