The Ukip leader later hit out at those with a worrying "anti-rich attitude" after one audience member held up a picture of a mansion belonging to Ukip donor and former treasurer Stuart Wheeler, who is an Eton and Oxford-educated ex-Conservative millionaire.
Von Furstenberg's life story is a biopic waiting to happen: the self-made millionaire who married into (and then divorced from) German royalty, partied with Andy Warhol at Studio 54, lost her fortune and won it again, got namechecked in a Dolly Parton song (Working Girl) and is still, at 66, having a high old time as a grand dame of New York.
Instead Gove sneers at them, undermines them, devalues their professionalism, and saves his praise for the millionaire who graciously allows his name to appear on the school gates, and phones up in the morning to ask what the attendance figures are – but not until he has phoned round his stores and checked the previous day's sales figures.
The 50-year-old is married to Therese Rein a self-made millionaire and working mother of three who owns a recruitment business.
His travels with his millionaire college friend John Aspinall introduced him to tribal communities on which his later thinking was based.
It is the largest single donation that the party, already used to the largesse of its most established backer, Sir Brian Souter, the millionaire founder of the Stagecoach transport group, has had.
Two weeks earlier Turner had called on the prime minister to investigate Shapps over his repeated denials, which turned out to be false, that he had acted as "web millionaire" Michael Green while an MP.
Three weeks in, the manager, a millionaire several times over, came to tell the workers they were losing their jobs.
Bond, of course, might have been a millionaire but he had, as his admirers never tired of explaining, once worked as a sign-writer.
Sure, I abhor everything Ukip stand for: they're a millionaire-funded party advocating privatisation and tax cuts for a thriving wealthy elite, encouraging struggling Britons to direct their fire at immigrants rather than financiers, poverty-paying employers or tax avoiders.
Jamie, the multi-millionaire, hovers, trying to think of something to say.
