Who is a "homeless billionaire"?
60-year-old “homeless billionaire” Nicholas Berggruen lives in Los Angeles - an art collector, philanthropist, philosopher, bachelor - everything as befits a person with a large... fortune. They called him homeless because until recently he did not have a permanent place of residence and jumped around the world from one hotel to another with one suitcase and a Blackberry, although one of his main businesses is real estate. In the 12s, Nicholas immersed himself in the study of the existentialism of Sartre and Kierkegaard and for several years hosted various philosophy professors for conversations in the royal suite of The Penninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills ($XNUMX a night). And then he went and founded his own institute, where political and social ideas for improving the world are developed.
In 2016, Berggruen was tired of wandering: he realized that Los Angeles was “the city of the future,” and decided to anchor there because of his newborn heirs, buying an estate for $40 million in Holmby Hills.
Children, Olympia and Alexander, were born in an unusual way. Berggruen approached the issue of paternity thoroughly: he hired a team of scientists who searched all over the world for a suitable mother based on physical and intellectual parameters. The genetics of the selected applicant and her relatives were checked up to the third generation, then two eggs were taken and implanted in two surrogate mothers. He knows the children’s mother through documents and photographs. Seven years ago, Berggruen convinced my lover (already a father of many children) to become an adherent of his views - not to associate himself with women either by marriage or children, but soon I appeared, and this system failed.
I met Nicholas at that same dinner with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. As the chief expert on Tatler's groom ratings, I responsibly recommend this bachelor. A cool option for childfree ladies, but you need to take a philosophy course, at least an express one, in order to distinguish Spinoza from Karl Marx based on quotes.
Author: Yunia Pugacheva
