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
Timely. Ain’t it.
Inbreeding doesn’t make for a long and healthy life.
DIED OF TARTER BUILDUP
1.5 billion? Bullshit! He had access to any amount of money you can imagine. Heart attack?…..darn.
Seems he cared more about financial wealth than anything else…including his own spiritual health or physical health.
Some people have the wrong priorities.
A friend said to expect a lot of suicides this weekend. Too many people know too much?
He was probably poisoned by the next in line for the inheritance.
OOOHHH NO. Long lost uncle Benji died? I must contact the family.
I’ve seen winos outside liquor stores that looked better.
Not that I frequent liquor stores……………….
Much.
May he rot in Hell, and may the Devil tear his black heart.
Meth?
“Meth?”
I’m thinking heart attack machine bro.
His dying wish was for all his money to go to Diogenes Sarcastica. I heard him yell it through the pillow on his face.
LOL, Diogenes I’ll swear I heard it too for 5%. It was right before the gun shots.
It’s a LIE! He is in the insane asylum since he was busted!!
Or He is hiding!!
God Bless us all!! I mean it!
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!
Looks like meth teeth to me.
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!
Gin Blossom: “Inbreeding doesn’t make for a long and healthy life.”
Nailed it.
“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
“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
“You got your life planned carefully
But you left out one detail
The hidden hand deals just one round
And the winds of change prevail”
Jefferson Starship, “Winds of Change”
https://youtu.be/o7dJ3a-U6WQ
“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”
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Rick James
He looks wicked.
Let me rephrase that. He LOOKED wicked.
@ 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)
Kcir, great ideas.
I always tried to do as much.
However, if you take them to a fancy restaurant, try and give them a menu without prices! LOL!
Even when not paying they complain!
It’s just damned impossible getting through to them!
Layla…shred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erRw9gVlRd4&ab_channel=EmilyHastings
Not only meth….but he’s suffering from a severe case of Frodo-ism.
Frodo all strung out on the street corner yelling about high elves…
There are lots of ways to measure your wealth besides gold coins.
Benjamin Rothschild …. surely its no wonder he died young …. He also played stuntman and body double for the “repentant villain” in Wonder-Woman 1984
Expensive cheese will get ya everytime.
RIP Benny.
That’s a shame…
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…
Definitely not clean living.
I wonder if he hung out with Hunter.
That Photo was from 2007…..I bet He looked even worse these last few Years.
Damn, another Covid-19 death!
$1.5 billion??? Is the widowed wife hot? But for a half billion afterwards … Who cares?!
John Zonk JANUARY 17, 2021 AT 8:54 AM
$1.5 billion??? Is the widowed wife hot? But for a half billion afterwards … Who cares?!
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Well, I wouldn’t call her ugly, but she’s the chick other girls bring along to the bar to make them look better.
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/baroness-benjamin-de-rothschild-standing-between-evelyne-chetrite-picture-id450444457
Burner, they would have blared that from the rooftops. He must have gotten the vaccine.
Note that wealth is no guarantee of longevity, especially in the face of terrible hygiene habits.
Lizards are known to have bad teeth.
It’s Smeagol. The accompanying article looks to Bezos to save our democracy.
Demented rich kid degenerate who never grew up. These repulsive Eyes Wide Shut fiends literally run our entire planet now.
Shoulda hung em all 150 years ago…………
Bad teeth=systemic bacterial infections=heart disease=dead.