Millionaire’s Mistresses in Decline

By Jane On November 18, 2008 · 4 Comments · In Publishing News ·

Sadly it appears that "more than 80% of multimillionaires who had extra-marital lovers planned to cut back on their gifts and allowances." What can this mean for the venerable line of Harlequin Present's Forced Mistress' Secret Babies stories? Will they survive?

The whole blog post is a hoot and I loved the part about the wage inequality. It seems that the female multimillionaire's bought lover earns more than the male millionaire's mistress.

Via TNR .

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4 Responses to Millionaire’s Mistresses in Decline

Emmy says:

November 19, 2008 at 4:35 am

It seems that the female multimillionaire’s bought lover earns more than the male millionaire’s mistress.

It seems so. Or at least, the only reality show I’ve seen about people competing for no other reason than a chance to be a toy is Jerry Hall’s show Kept on VH1. It was interesting, to say the least. Only lasted one season though. Wonder why? *rme*
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Marsha says:

November 19, 2008 at 7:05 am

Well, there goes another career ambition. I’m *always* too late to the party.
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Susan/DC says:

November 19, 2008 at 3:47 pm

I’m always amazed at the questions people will answer on a survey. Did they start out with more general questions about the economy and build up to the the questions about extramarital activities? Shows that the old days, when no one would admit to having a mistress, much less what she was paid, are definitely gone. How do you vet a survey like this for accuracy? I’m clearly way too sheltered, or maybe just not rich enough (make that, definitely not rich enough).
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LDB says:

November 19, 2008 at 8:50 pm

HQ seems to have upped the average to Billion insted of Millionaires, so they should be alright.
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