Billionaires (especially of the tech variety) are constantly in the news.
From the ‘space’ exploration antics of Messrs Bezos, Musk and Branson to the guilty verdicts recently handed out to Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and of course, the possibility of criminal charges against former POTUS Donald Trump (who still claims billionaire status, despite wife Melania’s current yard sale).
Elizabeth Holmes will be the subject of Adam (Don’t Look Up) McKay’s upcoming biopic Bad Blood, with Jennifer Lawrence playing the suspiciously baritone-voiced grifter.
Incidentally, Mark Rylance played tech billionaire Peter Isherwell in Don’t Look Up (2021), a character owing an obvious debt to the oddly enunciating trio of Musk, Zuckerberg, and Holmes.
The super-rich have long been a subject of fascination but this interest appears to have increased over recent years if the popularity of shows such as Succession and Billions are anything to go by. The key difference being that previously, in the likes of Dynasty, Dallas, Falcon Crest and Howards’ Way, there were several good eggs amongst the well-heeled scheming parasites. Not
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