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From the lyrics of Hall and Oates and Gwen Stefani to the lens of Andy Warhol, the entitled rich girl has long been fodder for artists and gossip mongers. These days that lens is turned on these girls at ever younger ages.
Consider the world’s fascination with two of the newest potential billionaire heiresses, Valentina Paloma Pinault, the 1-year-old daughter of Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault, the son of Francois Pinault, the world’s 39th richest man; and the still-unnamed baby daughter of O.C. actress Kelly Rowan and her now former fiance, Canada’s richest man David Thomson.
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Still, for all the attention lavished on the daughters and granddaughters of the world’s wealthiest, many will never actually inherit a billion-dollar fortune. For one thing, fewer wealthy parents are leaving their fortunes to their offspring these days, in part due to estate taxes or charitable interests but also for fear of indulging the “Paris Hilton syndrome” or a “trustafarian lifestyle.”
