Banking heir Benjamin de Rothschild dies at 57 – IOTW Report

Banking heir Benjamin de Rothschild dies at 57

He was worth 1.5 billion. And look at his teeth.

NEW YORK (AP) — Benjamin de Rothschild, who oversaw the banking empire started by his father in 1953, has died. He was 57.

The Edmond de Rothschild Group, the company he was chairman of, said that de Rothschild died of a heart attack Friday afternoon at his home in Pregny, Switzerland.

Since 1997, Benjamin de Rothschild headed the banking group, which was named after his father. Today, Edmond de Rothschild Group says it manages assets worth 160 billion euros, or $190 billion.

Forbes magazine estimates de Rothschild’s net worth at $1.5 billion. He is a descendent of the Rothschild family, which has a nearly 300-year history running European banks. more

49 Comments on Banking heir Benjamin de Rothschild dies at 57

  1. You can’t take it with you!
    I keep telling my elderly parents to spend their money NOW!
    Travel, spend it on the little pleasures as well.
    They are so tight and worried that they are one missed payment from being homeless. *sigh
    Even though they have a large house and a pension.
    Money to burn but they grew up poor and still fear going broke.

    You CANNOT take it with you!

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  2. Damn, I just read a kook website post about this guy, within the last week.
    I didn’t commit it to memory, but what a co-winky-dink.
    I’m interested now.
    Maybe Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself, because he’s not dead!

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  3. “16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:

    17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?

    18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.

    19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

    20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

    21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

    22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

    23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.”
    Luke 12:16-23

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  4. “A little Indian brave who before he was ten

    Played war games in the woods
    With his Indian friends

    And he built a dream that when he grew up

    He would be a fearless warrior, Indian Chief

    Many moons passed

    And more the dream grew strong

    Until tomorrow he would sing
    His first war song and fight his first battle

    But something went wrong

    Surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night

    And so castles made of sand
    Melts into the sea eventually”

    Jimi Hendrix, “Castles Made of Sand”

    https://vimeo.com/233630345

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  5. “I met a traveller from an antique land,
    Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
    Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
    And on the pedestal, these words appear:
    My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
    Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

    -Percy Bysse Shelly, “Ozymamdius”

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  6. @ LocoBlancoSaltine

    People who grew up poor remember what real hunger & a constant nervousness feels like. Even if they make it they never waste anything and harbour a guilt for the relatives and friends they lost along the way.

    Best thing to do is once in a while bring them a very high end something or take them out to nice restaurant they would never go to themselves.

    May I suggest a bottle of Chivas Regal 25 year old Scotch for your dad and a toast to the ones who never made it.

    Personally a REAL CUBAN COHIBA is my choice since Fidel’s son allows them up here. ( Fuckin Commie)

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  7. Brad
    JANUARY 17, 2021 AT 12:00 AM
    ““Meth?”

    I’m thinking heart attack machine bro.”

    …there’s more elegant and remote solutions than that, and some have been around for a long time. Prussic acid is pretty lethal and easy to produce, looks just like a heart attack but the carrier can have telltale smell; then there’s digitalis that can do the same thing and is less obvious but depending on dosage it may have some other prominent side effects before lethality, as well as being discoverable on autopsy; you CAN depolarize a heart fairly easily, which I assume is what you mean by a “Heart Attack Machine”, but you’d have to have pretty decent access to what I assume would be a well-guarded intended victim, although guards are frequently underpaid and abused by even very rich clients and have been bribed before today.

    But its so easy to screw up cardiac chemistry that I don’t know why anyone would even bother with a more direct route. The heart is finicky and sensitive to calcium and potassium and some other things, and some folks can even be pushed off the mortal coil if they’re heart is already jacked and they get too much baking soda, so if someone wanted him for some reason to have a “heart attack” they certainly have a lot of options, and that’s BEFORE you get into respiratory depressants and more…direct…methods of inducing heart-muscle killing anoxia that Justice Scalia could probably tell you about if he weren’t entirely dead…

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