This week, we decided to take a look at all the little-known good deeds performed by famous billionaires. Unfortunately, we instead just kept stumbling on stories of them being petty, vain, and destructive. Maybe they’re tearing their families apart, maybe they’re tearing society apart, maybe they’re tearing whale penises apart, but they’re always doing something.
Here's a look back at the facts we learned this week. These short summaries are not meant to be appreciated by themselves—each one links to a full article we put out this past week with much more info, so click every one that interests you, or you’ll be the guest of honor at next month’s hunt.
He would seat a guest on a stool then tell her, “Madame, you are sitting on the largest penis in the world.”
Afterward, the model spent $120,000 to dial back the tweaks and “detransition” back.
He used a computer program to choose moves, and as a result, the billionaire was banned from chess.com ... until they quietly reinstated his account, anyway.
The daughter was already married at the time, to a woman, but this French marriage was not recognized in Hong Kong, where her dad was from.
The Broadcom CEO tried to keep this stone tunnel beneath his house secret from his wife, but this didn’t work out. Also, he got indicted on drug trafficking charges.
Jon Corzine passed over him for partner at Goldman Sachs, so Tepper overbid for Jon’s mansion and demolished it.
This is truly evil. Because, you see, they sing really badly.
Companies spend even more on digital advertising now than they did a decade ago, which is good. But before, it went to the websites that produce stuff, while now, it largely goes to social media companies that produce nothing.
Top image: Anthony Quintano