Now, paradoxically, his fortune allows him to keep it just as real as ever.
Your words make clear how much more I could have learned from Irma had fortune allowed us to meet.
Spencer is a charming host and confirmed oenophile, whose estimated £500m fortune allows him to indulge in some of the finest vintages Bordeaux has to offer.
They work to a limited budget, but they will seek to restrain Rangers and hope that good fortune allows for a moment of intrepidness.
Her fortune allowed her to build the largest doll and toy collection in the world, which she left to the museum, along with an endowment.
Osama bin Laden originally rose to prominence because his inherited fortune allowed him to bankroll Arab volunteers fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
More significantly, though he had little money of his own because he had been a career naval officer, his wife's fortune allowed him to lend $167,000 to the campaign, which was permissible under campaign laws then.
His father's leather fortune allowed Mr. Ladew a life of globe-trotting, fox hunting and hobnobbing with the likes of Noël Coward, Edna Ferber and T. E. Lawrence, who mapped out an itinerary for him, camels included, for crossing the Sahara.
"I don't come from people who could afford vacations so easily, O.K.?" Spyer, on the other hand, was born in Amsterdam to a wealthy Jewish family of pickle manufacturers, whose fortune allowed them to flee Holland just before the Nazis invaded.
