PRIVACY IS THE NEW LUXURY
Claim: Google’s Eric Schmidt Had Aides Solicit Women For Yacht Trip
By Elizabeth Coady
GOOGLE CHAIRMAN ERIC SCHMIDT RECENTLY DROPPED $15 MILLION to snap up a private xanadu where he could wine and dine — and presumably bonk — a litany of beautiful playmates, according to the New York Post.
The former CEO dropped several more million to have the 6,250-square-foot duplex with private elevator soundproofed because “he doesn’t sleep well,” the paper reports.
Schmidt, whose personal fortune is estimated to be $8.2 billion, apparently has an open marriage with his wife Wendy, who lives separatedly from her husband at their Nantucket property. The couple married in 1980 and have two daughters.
Numerous outlets have repeatedly published reports on his extramarital relationships, and the Post alleges that he is currently seeing two women, Lisa Shields, who works for the Council on Foreign Relations, and Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen, a Vietnamese pianist.
In the past, Schmidt has declined to comment on the couple’s arrangement, but we feel certain that he doesn’t care that we know. After all, he famously once said of privacy on the web: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
The luxe Manhattan duplex Manhattan was selected in part because it had its own elevator entrance, according to the Post. “While everyone in New York wants a doorman,” a source told the paper, “Eric specifically said he didn’t want one. He doesn’t want anyone to see him and his guests coming in and out. He insisted on his own elevator.”
More interesting, at least to me, is that Schmidt reportedly has asked aides to round up a bevy of beauties to serve as adornment during trips on his $72.3 million yacht named Oasis.
“He had one of his aides approach beautiful and intelligent women that Schmidt never met before, saying, ‘Eric would like to invite you to his yacht,’ which was cruising around the Riviera.”
Let this be inspiration to the grasping among hoi polloi: wealth has its privileges.
