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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why did she even marry him? I have a friend an immigrant from Eastern Europe. She married a trust funder and they have the opposite arrangement: her earnings are only hers and he pays rent/mortgage. She only marginally contributes to living expenses. 
She’s a lawyer and already amassed a fortune, saving every year almost $200k and dumping it in stocks [/quote]

Good arrangement, seems fair. Since Belle was the trustfund baby in this situation, that explains the pre-nup. Not going to cry for a woman who didn't work for years and has millions in real estate.[/quote]

She had no idea when she signed the prenup that he would go on to make that much money. Always risks in that respect.[/quote]

It’s unclear to me how big her trusts and inheritance actually are though … [/quote]

At least $10m if she was able to buy him out of both houses.[/quote]

What’s maddening is not him retaining his earnings it’s him pocketing the appreciation on houses and emptying her trusts (which are HIS kids trusts in the end). Where her lawyers were looking ? It’s a predatory prenup and they should have advised better to state that appreciation on whatever is funded with trust remains in trust [/quote]

Who knows how it was reviewed?  Belle has a BA from Harvard and a law degree from NYU, but she says she was "in love" and nothing else mattered at that point.  [b]Plus, if you've never had to worry about money in your life, it probably didn't register to her that one day she may need to worry when her husband fleeces her for all her assets.[/quote][/b]

I still wonder how the family office lawyers or any other lawyers involved in the prenup let this go.forward but this is the best explanation for her willful blindness I can see. She probably wasn't financially literate because she never had to be.[/quote]

It’s clear neither of you have read the book. Her family lawyer strongly recommended against the change in the prenup that James demanded.[/quote]

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