How rich are the Gilmores?

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Anonymous wrote:Not that much.

+1. Maybe $10M tops.

More for naming rights to a building at Yale.

I was going to comment on the sizeable donation to Yale!

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I went to Amherst in the 90s and the going rate for getting the campus center named after you was $16M—or maybe that was a dorm. I remember we joked you could get a water fountain for $100o or a urinal for $500. There was a pretty clear price tag on most of those naming rights. They had a dorm and the campus center they were aggressively shopping to rich alumni at that time.

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Anonymous wrote:Rory wasn’t a really a bad person—it’s just that the masses watch shows like this and get really jealous and don’t understand.

did you watch the follow up shows. rory turned ouut to be a disappointment

Yep...she wasn't really a bad person...until she was.

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Anonymous wrote: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

It is on Netflix. Go watch it and then come back to us. From the start.

LOL this is the only appropriate response to a post like this.

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They changed it through the course of the show.
- First couple of seasons: ~$10m-ish. They can make a spur-of-the-moment decision to write Rory’s tuition checks since it is important to them, but they budget for things like first class travel for Europe (only every other year, during the low season in the fall) and summer house (rental not owned)
- Later seasons: ~$50-100m since they can afford to donate a building to Yale

It’s possible to fanwank it by saying Richard inherited a bunch when his mother died (or maybe Emily had a big inheritance on her side, after all her uncle donated a wing to the local hospital).

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Anonymous wrote:Rory wasn’t a really a bad person—it’s just that the masses watch shows like this and get really jealous and don’t understand.

did you watch the follow up shows. rory turned ouut to be a disappointment

Yep...she wasn't really a bad person...until she was.

They completely changed her character. After an affair with Dean she realized she didn’t want to be the other woman, so she had an affair with Logan?
When she was assigned a throw away article in high school on the school parking lot, she turned it into something noteworthy, but she drifts along as a “professional”, even falling asleep in interviews.

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This site theorized:
Gilmores: $50 million
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/gilmore-girls-how-wealthy-were-richard-and-emily-gilmore.html/

Huntzbergers: $200 million
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/gilmore-girls-how-rich-were-the-huntzbergers.html/

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Do they ever address whether Lorelai got child support from Christopher? I don't remember. I think we're supposed to think she just saved up from her job at the inn and bought the house. It's not impossible - she had free room and board at the inn, right? And she started working there at 17, so 10 years to save up for the down payment. It's a pretty small house and the town is not supposed to be fancy (although it is very nice and apparently an easy drive to Choate and West Hartford).

I mean, I think it's pretty unrealistic but in the show's universe it is at least possible

I think it would be pretty weird if she got no support from him. They're on good terms, they even have a spark. And wasn't he also from a wealthy family?

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When Rory is in college and Lorelai is building the inn, there are several episodes about how broke she is, how she's surviving on bread and tomatoes etc. I think during those difficult early years she probably did the same, fed Rory and went hungry sometimes. She wasn't a Luke's regular there or anywhere.