For their efforts heir hunters charge as much as 40% of the inheritance.
In spite of the impression given by the New York Post's Page Six gossip column, it's not really the partying Manhattan girls and their Wall Street heir boyfriends who rule the Hamptons during the summer these days.
Gadhafi's brother Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, once seen as their father's heir apparent, is in Libyan custody and is the subject of a tussle between Libya and the International Criminal Court, both of which want to put him on trial.
In that he is the true heir of the pop artists and their Dadaist predecessors.
Waitt, who sports casual clothes and shaggy strawberry-blond hair, is one of myriad monied outsiders buying their way into show business, including Marshall Field heir Frederick (Ted) Field and Federal Express founder Frederick Smith.
Prince Bertil's two brothers had already renounced their right to the throne by marrying commoners and the only heir, his older brother Crown Prince Gustaf Adolph, died in a plane crash in 1947.
Zardari said he will serve as co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party while their 19-year-old son, Bilawal, and newly named heir to the party leadership, finishes his studies.
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Almost as soon as they returned from their honeymoon, royal watchers began looking for signs that Masako was bearing an heir (of course, the possibility remains that even if she became pregnant, her child might be a girl too).
Ellison and Bertarelli, the heir to a Swiss biochemical fortune, had been quarreling in court long before their yachts faced off in open waters.
As we wrote in the Forbes 400 issue, Seagrams spirit heir Charles Bronfman and 5-hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava talked with us about their decisions to join.
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It came as no surprise that Matthew Pritzker, a 21-year-old heir to the Chicago family fortune, joined his sister Liesel in a suit against their father, Robert, over what ever happened to their trust money.
Critics complain that heir hunting, if not immoral, is at least distasteful, particularly when the firms initiate their own search.
For more than a decade Congress has obsessed over the fact that a handful of rich folks, including fund operator John Templeton, Kenneth Dart of Dart Container and Campbell soup heir John Dorrance III were able to escape U.S. income and estate taxes by renouncing their citizenship.
Alltold, we have to fear that the damage to our markets and financial system will be so great that another generation of investors will be alienated from using investment as part of t heir survival, juyst as happened between 1929 and 1953, when the stock averages finally made up all their lost ground.
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