John B. Kelly, the father of Grace Kelly, used his will to ask his daughter to curb her spending habits. Kelly asked Grace to “not bankrupt the Principality of Monaco with the bills about her clothing.”
Vermont socialite John Bowman’s story is a sad one. His wife and daughter died before he did, and Bowman held the illusion that the whole family would come back to life once he joined them on the other side. When he passed in 1891, he set up a trust of $50,000 to employ a staff to upkeep his home and cook a family meal every day — just in case they all came back to life.
Golda Bechal was a British millionaire who really loved Cantonese food. She left almost her entire multimillion-dollar fortune to her favorite restaurant!
T.M. Zink was a misogynist lawyer from Iowa who hated women so much that he set up a trust fund to create a completely woman-less library. Zink’s will left $50,000 for the creation of a library with no books, art, or decoration by women, and no female employees.
Patricia O’Neil, daughter of the Countess of Kenmore, is the ultimate animal lover. Her will currently stipulates that her pet chimpanzee, Kalu, will inherit her $80 million estates when O’Neal dies.
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