For those who do not know, this veddy veddy veddy rich guy marries a a beauty queen, they live in a an enormous house, he makes a HUGE pile of money selling time shares..in fact, is THE time share king.
Did I mention they live in Fla????
So, not content with 20 bedrooms, 13 baths, he decides he will build the biggest house in the country, 90,000 sq. feet, modeled on Versailles. With 10 kitchens.
The house is barely roughed in, no interior walls, when the 2008 crash hits, causing them to scramble to save the business, save money, save the "new" house.
His idea of saving money is to bitch about people leaving the lights on in the house they live in, and firing all but a couple of their staff of 19.
HER idea of saving money is to buy meals for them, including the 8 kids, at McDonalds.....using a limousine service.
Cause she cannot cook.
BUT.....you might want to catch this doc. because it is rated the best doc of 2012,
AND, according to Ezra Klein review:
"Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein described the documentary as "perhaps the single best film on the Great Recession", writing that one scene, in which Siegel recounts a series of transactions that allowed him to purchase at fraction of its original value a loan on which he owes money, "might stand as the single most complete vignette on the mechanics of the financial crisis and the subsequent slow recovery."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_of_Versailles
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