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Why Rich Men Never Marry Down In Real Life

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Can any woman marry rich or do wealthy men date one type and marry another? As a second-generation rich kid who married another heir, I break down the kinds of women self-made billionaires, second-generation heirs, and old-money men actually marry, and why new money and old money play by completely different rules.

From Hua Sansan’s failed Cinderella story to Jensen Huang and Lori’s build-together marriage, this episode explores pleasure heirs, trophy girlfriends, family empires, cultural capital, and Dasha Zhukova’s path into old money – asking what truly makes a woman “marriage material” inside elite circles.

Watch to discover who rich men really marry, and whether the rich man has become the ultimate trophy.

In this episode:
00:00 How an Influencer Almost Married a Billionaire’s Son
01:27 Why Rich Men Date One Type but Marry Another
05:32 How Rich Families Create Successors and Pleasure Heirs
06:44 How Pleasure Heirs Keep Their Girlfriends Dependent
09:27 Why Rich Girls Avoid Men Who Date Esc0rts
10:08 Why My Rich Ex Was Never Marriage Material
12:18 Why a Self-Made Billionaire’s Wife Takes the Biggest Risk
15:01 What the “Perfect” Self-Made Billionaire’s Wife Looks Like
15:51 How One Wrong Marriage Can Destroy a Family Empire
16:38 How Marrying My Husband Strengthened Both Families
18:01 What the “Perfect” Second-Generation Heir’s Wife Looks Like
18:44 Why Old Money Values Culture More Than Cash
19:45 How a Russian Oligarch’s Daughter Married Into Europe’s Old-Money Elite
21:45 What the “Perfect” Old-Money Wife Looks Like
22:33 Why Rich Men Became the Ultimate Trophy

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20 Comments

@privilegedfew Creator 2 days ago Pinned

Do you think wealth gap marriages can be successful?

@AnotherSkyTV 2 days ago

For some reason people don't realize that Cinderella was noble (just oppressed by her stepmother and stepsisters that stole her wealth) so she actually married in her social class 😂.

@Sashaal_Mariana 2 days ago

Honestly, even if a girl gets lucky and marries a rich man, it is still very dangerous to depend financially 100% on someone; the hand that can feed you can starve you as well. Girls, please earn your own money!

@AishaMohammad-wu9tw 2 days ago

Life is too short to worry about these things just marry someone who’s good for you and compatible with

@WhiteeeChocolate 2 days ago

Best words ever — COMPETENCE is attractive.

@pines-by-the-lagoon 2 days ago

Rich men do marry down, it happens rarely but happens. These few stories that an ordinary girl reads about is what drives them to fall for scammers, waste money on plastic surgery or endanger yourself by handing out around shoddy people and places. The second obstacle is women do not know how to recognize rich men who aren't famous for being rich. Third obstacle is inappropriate behavior when it comes to money from her AND her family and friends.

@MYR-t6i 2 days ago (edited)

A friend from school (family net worth 20B) married a middle class girl from the same school. Another male friend (family nw 8B) also married an upper middle class. A few other similar stories in my circle. These people are never visible on social media - private accounts without family name, with less than 2k followers. You can only tell who they are from your mutual friends if you have.

A few things they have in common: all men who married middle class are European, but none comes from nobility, their families made their fortunes through businesses established after WWII. And both women are highly educated and have that very clean, understated aesthetic: minimal makeup, never really chasing fashion trends (very subtle or nothing, no birkins) but always dressing femininely. Also they never really dress sexy. (But yes, there are so many women like that, so it’s really about luck)

I feel like new money families tend to care more about their partner’s family background than families with generational wealth or even aristocratic backgrounds do these days.

On the other hand, one of my girlfriends (family nw 2B) is struggling with dating in her early 30s. Two other girlfriends from similarly comfortable families (1B and 100M) are also struggling in dating.
Family wealth doesn’t necessarily make a woman’s dating pool better and larger, sadly.

@syasyaishavingfun 1 day ago

Damn even rich people need sponsorship

@estherbolekia 2 days ago (edited)

This reminds me so much the current king of Spain. He was forced to quit several girlfriends from high society because the family would not allow it. And he split with them… UNTIL HE MET LETIZIA!! For her, he was wiling to quit being a prince. Since he was the only heir of the Spanish kingdom, the family had to accept the relationship. BTW, Letizia was divorced. Lived in middle-low class neighbourhood… ok, Letizia was a miracle. She was elegant and articulate from the beginning.

@HostSushi 2 days ago

Note: for any brown women who weren’t mentioned in the video, Angelia brown is a fashion designer (aka a woman who is in the arts and very elegant) she married old money, a prince!

Another examples are models and artsy socialites who are in the art industry tend to marry billionaire or old money.

So yes, this video is very realistic and accurate haha.

@Ianopike 16 hours ago

She’s absolutely right. As a middle class girl in my 20’s (long time ago), I dated and had relationships with several rich guys, to my leftie mother’s horror. I then came to my senses and married within my class. Those rich guys were the most vapid, status obsessed and ignorant men (both old and new money) I’ve ever met. You’re not missing out. Sorry for being blunt, but hopefully it can help some girl reading it wake up.

@natalieeinsiedel 2 days ago

I think it's more common and expected for a rich girl to marry down, i am not rich but i am upper middle class and i have been approached by broke guys expecting me to date them and i refused and then i was the bad guy suddenly

@myrlzz2089 1 day ago

I’m genuinely obsessed with this channel, I could listen to you talk about these weird little social dynamics for hours 😭

I would LOVE a video on how rich kids actually position themselves as “cool” within their own circles. Where do they get their references from? Who are they looking at for fashion, music, art, places to go, brands, aesthetics etc.? And how do they know what’s cool before everyone else decides it’s cool?

Basically I need to know where the cool rich kids get their cool from lol

@pekachew83 2 days ago

"Competence is attractive" perfectly said

@rubzento 2 days ago

There's a chinese saying 富不過三代 or "wealth never passes three generations" that sorta links to what you say about the pleasure heirs, cause 1st generation built it, 2nd generation expanded it, and the 3rd generation grew up in only the luxury so it was squandered. 😂💀 it just makes it really interesting when depending on where somebody falls in the spectrum of these mindsets, they might be so obsessed with growing it, orienting their whole lives around it to making it last but it just takes a few bad decisions or circumstances you can't even control before the wealth is gone anyway. I'd be curious to talk to really, really old rich people and see what they've landed on in terms of regrets or happiness as their lives played out.

@yeahiiiiiii 2 days ago

If a rich man marries down, he is probably the outcast in his group and gets rejected by rich girls, or craves such a power imbalance which puts the poor girl in severe danger.

@CamilaMoPin 2 days ago (edited)

Albina, I’m curious about how women like you deal with patriarchy and misogyny within your circle. I mean, how the rich women deal with it, is it a little different or is it the same like for the rest of us?

@ephy6378 2 days ago (edited)

The problem with social media is that there are influencers from all walks of life who have made money. The money gives them access. You see so many influencers on red carpets organized by big companies. They live in million dollar mansions. They have access and now they want to belong

@Anonymous_JK_Lover 1 day ago

This reminds me of a video I saw recently on the dating life of Eartha Kitt. She dated rich men, but their mothers both threatened to cut them off. One of the mothers allegedly told her son that she would off him herself if he shared his wealth with a Black woman.

@Thewitchgirly 2 days ago

I believe that in order to marry rich you need to have some really good qualities and be independent because u only marry rich once u become rich enough yourself