How rich are the Gilmores?
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Anonymous
| In the show Gilmore Girls, much is made of Emily and Richard’s wealth. What do you think is their net worth? 50 mil? 100 mil? |
Anonymous
| Not that much. |
Anonymous
What do you think the Huntsbergers were worth? |
Anonymous
+1. Maybe $10M tops. |
Anonymous
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Let’s see:
Country club membership Mansion in West Hartford Private school for Lorelai k-12 + private hs & Yale full-pay for Rory Revolving door of maids Emily was a SAHM Richard owned an insurance company. I would say $5M at minimum in late 90s/early 2000s dollars. Double that for same lifestyle today. |
Anonymous
| They also own windmills. |
Anonymous
More. |
Anonymous
| What I really want to know is how rich Lorelai was. She’s 32 when we meet her, and owns a SFH in a “good” town in Connecticut (aka crazy property taxes). She’s lived there for at least 5 years, so since she was 27 or younger, while working at a bed and breakfast. She eats out multiple times per day. |
Anonymous
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Old money isn't really that much money.
$10M tops |
Anonymous
| Id say about 10 million, but have a ton of old money connections and good investments |
Anonymous
I don't get the sense that Stars Hollow is supposed to be an expensive town. |
Anonymous
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At least 50 million in “those days” dollars. I assume Lorelei also had access to a family trust to buy her house and pay for her life. I doubt she had access to the trust before 18–having a kid may have given her access to some monies, though. Quite possibly the trustees are not her parents, which supports the whole estrangement storyline.
“Trust fund teen mom” would not have made much of a show, though, so the viewer gets to assume she was self made. IMO Lorelei could have afforded the private school tuition but it wasn’t her value. (In fact there was probably a family educational trust to pay for educational expenses, so it wasn’t exactly Richard and Emily paying for it, either) Think about it: only a trust fund kid could live Lorelei’s lifestyle of quaint bed and breakfast run by a high school dropout! And it explains Rory’s weird sense of entitlement and continual upward trend in life despite having no skills |
Anonymous
| Remember, the show takes place 20 years ago (they mention what year it is at multiple points throughout the show). |
Anonymous
She worked as a maid at the inn and lived with baby Rory in a shed in the backyard, probably for free, subsidized by the nice lady who owned the hotel. I'm sure she lived for many years rent free and most of her meals free at the inn. She saved up all her wages and put down a modest downpayment on her nice house. She ate out all the time but just at the diner or a few other takeout places where everyone knew her, so of course they gave her discounts, and probably she and Rory got free food from Sooky at the inn all the time when she was manager. Went to community college for her business classes - very low cost. She and Sooky saved up to buy a decrepit building and then Luke if I recall correctly also helped with the downpayment (as a silent partner?) It needed tons of work to fix it up but didn't Luke provide a lot of that for free? |
Anonymous
Several hundred million. Completely out of the Gilmore's league financially. The family is nasty, but they're technically right on that point. |