At an Art Opening last week I met a smart pretty women in her late thirties who did technology consulting but had always wanted to be a writer. About a year ago she met a wealthy Hedge Fund manager from Greenwich CT who claimed to be in the tail end of his marriage. Even though he was much older she was turned on by the power he exuded from being extremely wealthy.
They started seeing each other on a weekly basis. For the next 12 months he provided her with a luxury condo and a stipend so she wouldn't have to work and therefore focus on her new novel. After 12 months he decided that he wanted to reconcile with his wife.
He was therefore terminating the affair and offered her a $10,000 parting gift. She was insulted because he was worth at least $150 million and she spend possibly the last reproductive year of her life with him. She thought she should get a very reasonable $1 million. A pittance compared to the sizable embarrassment she could cause if she had to.
So let me ask you this. What is the appropriate way to calculate a parting gift at the end of an affair? Post your comments below!
14 comments:
If she wants money for sex, she should just become a high class escort/prostitute. if she would just finish her novel and not waste so much time on the guy, she wouldn't need a pittance.
also, one should never sleep with married people. its bad karma. nothing good ever comes out of it.
Gold digging bitch. She should be happy some guy paid for her lifestyle for a year. He helps her achieve her dream, and she turns on him? Ridiculous. Also you do not mention if she actually finished her novel. she had 1 year, with nothing to do but write and she was unable, sounds like she is angry that she is a failure at life.
She must be Russian.
Are you kidding me? She received fee apartment and a stipend for an entire year. Now she wants a breakup fee of a million dollars.
Go find a job loser and pay you own way through life. A good start is to stop lying on your back.
she got to keep the apartment? isnt that worth close to a million dollars? if this condo's in nyc- then it's well over a million.
she already got her money! she should have never believed he was leaving his wife. a married man is a married man. even in seperation from his family and wife. i think his wife should sue her for extortion and prostitution solicitation.
there are pools of gold digging predators like her who only date married men for the sole purpose of getting men who are emotionally weak and financially successful.
The Apartment was a rental so she's loosing the apartment.
Hey, she spent one of her last reproductive years with someone who wasted her time. Doesn't he owe her something for that?
He got off easy-married men are scum---he would have been up a creek if she broke out an SIP
Call is a classic case of Natural Selection, our children will all be blessed that a whore like her couldn't reproduce.
She should be compensated for the mere fact he wasted her time,he lied and deceived her,all at same time he was still patching up things with his wife,$10,00 is an insult,my companion and I have lived together for two years,no way Iam leaving with a lousy $10,000,and he knows it.
If the situation were reversed and some guy gave up his job and a woman kept him for a year--and then reconciled with her husband, would she owe him a breakup fee? Is there a double standard here ---(not accounting for the reproductive clocking ticking)?
This relationship has no sense for me. It doesn't make sense making a party for leaving someone. I think it is bad taste. Of course they are the product of USA; A Russian who uses men for money has all the reasons: she comes from a difficult situation where people doesn't have enough for eating. She tries to survive. But an American Woman who does that: she just confirms the nature of this country. She has a job, opportunities, and she doesn't need to trash herself.
It appears as though he views her as a high class escort/prostitute by offering her $10,000.... why not ask for more...
Does she have to pay NY or CT state taxes on that money?
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