Doing the Math on Paris Hilton's Inheritance

Filed in archive General on December 27, 2007

One of the nice things about being from a filthy rich family is that even if your grandfather gives away 97% of his money to charity, you're still going to do just fine.

If you haven't heard, and I can't imagine what you could be thinking about other than Paris Hilton, Barron Hilton (Paris' grampy) is giving 97% of his estate to charity. For those family members waiting on their claim to that money, they can be thankful that taking away 97% of $2.3 billion still leaves $69 million to be divvied up.

If you divide $69 million up between 10 people, everybody still gets $6.9 million. Divide it up by 100, and everyone gets $690,000. Any way you slice it, there's still plenty to go around. Maybe not enough to roll around in bed with dirty old bills flowing over you, but plenty.

Actually, Paris has it easy-she's already rich, with or without any inheritance. She leveraged her non-stop partying into a gig where she actually gets paid to party now. If you want Paris to make silly faces for the paparazzi at your shindig, it costs, baby.

It's the rest of those Hiltons that are going to have to suffer.

Except, of course, for the fact that I'm sure the kind Baron, er... Barron, has showered them with plenty of gifts over the years. I can just imagine him visiting the grandkids: "Let's see what Grandpa has rattling around in his pocket for you... oh, it's a million-dollar bill."

We should all be so unfortunate.