Rich People Problems

Kitty Bing entered the spa pavilion of her house—"a futuristic Egyptian fantasy spa inspired by the movie Stargate”—where her husband, Jack, was getting a massage (66). She revealed to him the news that his daughter, Colette, would soon be marrying an Englishman. Colette hadn’t spoken to her father in nearly two years—not since he had married Kitty.

Kitty told Jack about the dress she planned to wear at the wedding, prompting him to remind Kitty that his daughter was free to do whatever she pleased with her money. Kitty, who had thought that Jack had cut off Colette completely, heard from Jack that Colette received money from a trust fund. This was a condition of his divorce settlement from her mother, Lai Di. The trust fund, to Kitty’s shock, is worth $5 billion. Kitty demanded to know what would happen to her in the event of Jack’s death, and their children. When he tells her that Kitty would get a $2 billion trust, as Lai Di had, Kitty quietly fumes about not being worth as much to Jack as his daughter. Harvard, on the other hand, as Jack’s son, would receive everything in the event of his father’s death. When Kitty asks about Gisele, Jack balks, saying that he didn’t need to leave her anything, given that she would be entitled to her biological father’s billions.