Candy Spelling 550With her screenwriter husband, this Californian socialite and writer built the largest home in Los Angeles County in 1988. She sold the 123-room property for $85 million in 2011 and then sued the developers of the $47 million apartment she moved into as they had failed to set up a restaurant in the building. Her first published work was the bizarrely titled How I Gave My Father An Ulcer. According to Joan Rivers, she won $90,000 on a slot machine in Vegas in 2011 and called it “pocket change” and of her relationship with her Beverley Hills, 902010 actress daughter, Tori, she has commented: “There was a time when things were rocky between us, and we worked that out, and I’m going to be on her reality show”.

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Grant Harrold
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Grant Harrold

A former under butler to Prince Charles, Lanarkshire born Harrold has morphed into “a Jeeves for hire”. He agreed an out of court settlement after being likened to the killer Raoul Moat and now charges £80 an hour for etiquette tips. He “adores” the Merchant Ivory film The Remains of the Day and claims to […]

Denise Eisenberg Rich
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Denise Eisenberg Rich

Rich by name, rich by nature. This US-born Grammy nominated singer-songwriter’s billionaire ex-husband, Marc Rich, received a pardon on President Clinton’s last day in office after she’d given more than a million dollars to the Democratic Party and the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park. She renounced her US citizenship and became and Austrian […]