People Who’ve Worked For The Ultra-Wealthy Are Airing Out Alllllllll Their Dirty Laundry

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“About 20 years ago, I was the personal assistant/nanny for a billionaire family in SoCal. At first, they were such lovely people, but slowly, all of their dysfunction overtook the happy veneer. The husband spent almost all of his time away and barely checked in with his family. The wife was the epitome of the bored, neglected rich second wife who ignored her only child in private but pretended to be Mother of the Year in public. She would take one yoga class a day and attend one high society function, and then spend the rest of the day bemoaning how difficult and stressful her life was. The child was neglected, unloved, and acted out constantly. He reminded me of one of the kids from Russian orphanages who weren’t held as babies and grew up not being able to form attachments to other human beings. He basically lived alone in this mansion with only me, the cook, the housemaid, and his mother, who barely even spoke to him and who I never saw hug him, much less play with him.”

“I essentially drove him to school, and to all the activities he didn’t want to do, but kept him out of her way, helped him do his homework, and tucked him in at night. He hated me no matter how I tried to bond with him, which I could understand because all he needed was his parents’ love and attention, and didn’t want me as a replacement.

I ended up getting fired after the holidays because I was tasked with planning their Christmas vacation, and after a month of intense planning — booking a private villa, organizing their private jet, getting the house-staff at the location, ordering all the necessary food, and getting all the activities planned — wife decided two days out that she no longer wanted to go to that location, but to a private island instead. When I informed her of the lack of availability at the new destination and the cost of lost deposits, and provided her with a list of options to choose from, she blamed me for ruining their holidays because I should have anticipated and planned a backup at the exact location she wanted that she had never previously mentioned.

I was so happy to have been fired from that mausoleum of rich malaise and despair. Honestly, I’ve sadly enjoyed reading the news over the years of the husband moving on to his fourth and now fifth much younger wives, getting caught up in legal drama for corruption. The ex-wife disappeared into obscurity once divorced from her place in high society.

Unfortunately, I’ve seen the kid’s social media and he’s turned out to be another uber rich soulless douchebag. He will probably just play out his father’s life beat by beat in an attempt to forever try and earn his attention, love, and respect.”

—honeychild7878