[lbo-talk] LBO-talk Fundrace

[dano]

At 4:52 PM -0700 7/16/04, joanna bujes wrote:
>The rich aren't rich because they give stuff away. Not that DeLong 
>is rich, but this all reminded me of....
>
>Anecdote of the day: I was having lunch with my best friend; a 
>friend of hers, a humble poor RN (named Joan) recently inherited 
>300,000 from her aunt. They had been close for many years. The aunt 
>also happened to be Robert DeNiro's mother. Robert decided to sue 
>Joan, claiming undue influence and asking for the $$ himself. After 
>putting Joan to a lot of trouble, I'm glad to say, he lost the 
>lawsuit.
>
>Do you think Robert De Niro needed 300,000?

Maybe he needed the mother's love symbol?