How Billionaires In New York And The Hamptons Live | Real Stories Full-Length Documentary

money makes the world go round and when you're rolling in cash the world becomes your own very fabulous sparkly diamond encrusted oyster I want to be pricing open that glittering oyster to get a sniff of how billionaires like to spend their billions billionaires don't fly on planes unless they look like this don't drive cars unless they look like this beginners don't stay in B and B's but if they did they'd probably be like this yes put your feet up and chill out for an hour of unashamed luxury from actor writer and comedian and now your guide to living like a billionaire if you can't live the dream rent it at least for a couple of seconds anyway [Music] if you think it's all work and no play for the super rich you'd be wrong the high rollers of the East Coast take their downtime very seriously so what do wealthy New Yorkers do on the holidays and weekends do they hang out with their family DIY or buy 17 grams of coke and party like it's 1999. no they come to the Hamptons yes the Hamptons the Mosley of the monumentally wealthy this place attracts more CEOs celebs and Wall Street wolves than you could shake a stick out I say homes but the vast majority of the salubrious gaffes here are not primary residences with an average price of 8.5 million dollars these are the Holiday Homes and weekend getaways of the super rich you want hot property and pricey property it's all happening here I'm about to meet Claire Kirwin who's originally from Sandy mode and she's going to show me around an amazing pad pretty exciting excited two years ago Clara set herself up as an estate agent in paradise and she's never looked back Claire it's lovely to meet you nice to meet you you're very welcome thank you so much you are at the moment showing this beautiful house yeah I can sell you this for a 9.95 million I just have that okay so uh yeah that's it's already a done deal but um tell me a bit about this because I know it's got a an Irish history to it it does so Joe Quinn is the Builder from County Longford he spent 13 months working on this house and he owns Aaron construction and he's been working on modern homes like this for over 20 years out in the Hamptons and then Kevin O'Sullivan is the architect and his dad is a tip man as we're walking up as well you've pointed out that this down here is yeah lots of Shamrock and Linden trees all the way into the house it couldn't be more Irish I know it's gorgeous okay I'm going to have to buy it so this is the kitchen there yeah I lost oh yeah so you can see the kitchen the 14 foot ceilings it just feels like you're you know part of the outdoors as well exactly I was just going to say that you're inside and outside all at the same time yeah and the house is six and a half thousand square foot whoa so it's pretty big and then we're surrounded by a 200 acre Reserve so the seclusion aspects and privacy is just incredible and three minutes to the village and five minutes to the beaches I think if I just dabble in my credit union account that's it I think that's sort out the mortgage yeah so is there a family or people that live here all the time or yes so most of the people come out just for the weekends or a couple of weeks a year so they're not out here full time these are generally second homes do they rent it out at all you can you can rent it so for this house you probably get 250 000 for the summer months so it's actually a very good investment to buy out here so when you're selling a property like this and it's mega mega books and what is your commission on something like that the commission is six percent in the Hamptons generally the listing agent will get three percent and I will get three percent so Claire you sell this place for around about 10 million give or take a couple of dollars three percent commission on that you're coming away with 300 Grand in there about around us that's amazing so it's well worth trying to sell it and then I'll run out the case I'm done now a quarter of a million bucks renting this place for the summer or 10 million to own it I'll need to check my savings account I'm sure my auntie put some money in there at Christmas oh what do we have here the biggest wardrobe in the history of the world you know when a wardrobe is an entire room maybe you have too many clothes that's all I'm saying oh okay don't know about you but if I'm gonna have a shower I'm gonna make sure there's tiny little seat in there because when you're rich you don't need to stand up when you shower [Music] look at this [Music] massage on oh strength the toilet seat is now massaging my mom [Music] [Music] [Music] it'll come as no surprise to you that most of my best friends are horses big shout out to all the ponies and drogheda today I'm at Southampton Polo Club because in the Hamptons Polo is the most exclusive and most expensive game I'm going to be joined by Longford native Frank McNamara who came here in 1961 and is known as the granddaddy of Polo I just hope I don't make any jokes about them into the hole Polo has a reputation of being the sport a very affluent people do you think that's true Polo is expensive we have 70 members here number two exceptions every one of our members is a self-made man we have two members who inherit a lot of money yeah but all of the others have started businesses build businesses and you know this is how they like to spend their money the horses that you need anywhere from four to six yes it's expensive four to six horses for one player oh yeah if you're going to play competitive Polo right at a club level not at a professional level you probably needs six horses I'm professionally how many would you need oh the professionals have to have minimum of 18 or 20. we have members here who own 50 horses I had one kind of Myra Pony when I was 14. for a sailor that was enough for me he took up enough of my time here is one of the original Mad Men an Irish Don Draper arriving in New York in the early 60s he ran his own advertising agency amassing a considerable Fortune before opening the Hamptons first Polo Club in 1989. this club now is if not the largest Club in America we're certainly one of the largest 70 members so you know is a perfect location for a polo so many young affluent people spend their Summers here and that is a perfect match for polo [Applause] Mr Frank would you mind explaining the game of Polo to me as if you're explaining it to a five-year-old the hardest thing we have to teach in this game is first of all this is a team sport yeah and the personalities that we attract are generally a type personalities who want to do everything themselves okay so trying to teach them that this is a team sport yeah that's hard it's tough and I might think that would be more kind of like a businessy Wall Street kind of very much so a very big percentage of our members are Wall Street people advice you know the same traits that make you successful in business yeah are what transfers to Polo okay I'm assuming that I can't play polo in this is that well you can if you've got a side saddle but I do know it's not a good idea you know what let's get me kitted out in some care oh we got the gear okay let's go I'm ready to go I am foreign [Music] there we go and so to a little lesson in the finer points of the world's most exclusive game horse stick ball got it [Music] yesterday I was like oh Frank what did you say good today I think you were terrific like two seconds out here and I stepped in manure yeah we have to give you training and walking around here you can take the girl out of drogheda but I'll find when you're ready where I go meet another Hamptons icon the self-titled surviven you may be familiar with his pop dance covers of hippie Classics or maybe not this is Sir Ivan's summer home in the Hamptons and when I say home I mean a castle built only 20 years ago they call this place the party Mansion of the East Coast you can see why [Music] survivor's House parties are the stuff of Legend heir to a 430 million dollar family fortune he's The Perfect Host All Summer Long the young the beautiful and the barely dressed come here in their droves free food good music and your choice of inflatable pool toys sir Ivan's Castle is the place to be on a Sunday afternoon in the Hamptons when my father came here he lived the American dream yeah came as an immigrant with 240 in his pocket and then a wound up investing in the stock market taking over an oil company and then a bank and I'm the beneficiary of it so I like to share it with people and enjoy the more people that see it it's like a piece of art it's like a it's not a home it's like it's like a it's like an art museum so you wouldn't keep an art museum to yourself and not let the public see it well it would be a shame it would be a shame that's a lovely attitude to have because I think some people would be like I'm not letting anyone say this this is all from me well 20 years ago I decided it would have to be a medieval Fortress because I like one of a kind yes things it's uh I thought it was me a wonderful fun thing to have my brother and his wife studied literally every single castle built in the history of the world really Russian castles Irish castles English castles Italian castles Spanish German Austrian it has gargoyles Griffins dragons a moat a drawbridge Gates everything everything we all those elements uh including a dungeon can't have a castle without a dungeon oh my gosh what's in the dungeon type of things you would find in a dungeon in Europe um prisoners no prisoners at the moment but if my guests misbehave by the pool who knows you lead the way oh my God oh my gosh so like I said there's literally every fun thing you can think of in life to enjoy here you never have to leave well don't make me leave now this is the fireplace on the dance floor but since I have a lot of people here and it's a daytime party I have the ping pong table set up instead of the Dance Floor you see that giant box there yeah that's a subwoofer when that's on the entire 15 000 Castle square foot Castle shakes there's gold weights of course there's gold weights solid gold I love that you said that of course there's I have Knights here to protect protect The King The King The King's solid gold weights [Music] keep watching the wall what'd you think of that huh nuts in Scooby-Doo has there ever been a secret passageway so cool [Music] Little T may not be his lordship's strong suit but sir Ivan's Castle is full of surprises [Music] so the party took a weird turn and I decided to come down to the basement and it's all gone a bit Fifty Shades even though I know I'm on my own how the strangest feeling that I'm being watched foreign my two favorite things in life are food and the beach and unfortunately I can't take you back to 1992 to Betty's town to the chips that we used to have so instead I brought you here to this quintessential Hamptons beach look at that today we're going to meet dunleary native Janet O'Brien who is the caterer to the Stars Janet's Rolodex is an A-list of celebrity names from Ralph Lauren and Fiddy sent to Bill and Hillary Clinton here in the Hamptons she knows just about everyone [Music] I'm jumping with these guys right yeah yeah get that shot look how cute they are Buffs are like okay I've met you all of six minutes yes already you're my spirit animal I'm your spirit animal okay so let's just wait on the tablecloths guys so we move the table [Music] right unbeknownst to me I can't keep up with this woman I could have done that Jan I can carry boxes all right well give me one job I want a job are these guys not paying her enough they don't they don't need to get you know you get tipped really high at this kind of work by the way oh okay yeah even if it's just carrying cushions I can do it you just you can fluff later yes it would call it fluffing all right at the very end when we're ready to go we call this the fluff the final fluff [Music] so how did you Corner this catering marker because okay you have done it so so I'm a fabulous bartender and ran many many restaurants and it was just by osmosis I realized and working on boats actually that I could cook and people knew that I got was good pretty much at anything yeah and started asking me to do small dinner parties yes and the smaller dinner parties became weddings and they became photo shoots in Manhattan for a famous photographer called Timothy White there's all celebrities so Timothy would love me to show up on set looking fabulous and be on set all day with the food you know like just everybody right laughing so it went from there and it just snowballed like hugely was there a point where you were like I'm on the map there because I'm doing such and such yeah a lot of press started happening yeah we're not only just because of doing you know parties but because you know I'm well known out here and you know people in you know magazines and stuff like that so I started getting a lot of press but like Puff Daddy's were my first famous parties Huffy was dating JLo at that time I remember that time and she's amazing I mean she's just gorgeous she's really spunky and then her birthday I think three years ago we were asked to do her birthday party here she bought a house in watermelon oh and it was very styled and very fun but again she just loves like most people just good earthy food like we did hamburgers with July 4th her kids dancing ice cream bar you know super fun [Music] the catering game is all about contacts and connections Janet's wealthy clients tell their wealthy friends who tell their wealthy friends who what do you get the picture today Janet's throwing a little beach party for Goldman Sachs managing director Jean Altier spend the summer in the Hamptons and it's belay one of the most magical places for us and our family and friends and so we throw an annual party every year just to celebrate summer and really kick off the good times well you look incredible so do you your outfit is incredible can you tell us where you put it together it is and you know we decided because it felt very Moroccan to do a sort of Moroccan theme around gosh that's so clever yeah and also your glasses are amazing thank you Chloe yeah I have to say though it's looking pretty sweet well that's working with Janet so I actually got introduced to Janet through a friend of mine actually from my son's school who um had used Janet for many years and they have a home in Southampton and just raved about how you know Janet will take your vision and just run with it and how beautiful she executes how Flawless everything comes together and also just how lovely and warm everyone on her staff is Janet offers her clients a personal service and it's not cheap but the lady is worth every penny and I'm not just saying that because I love her if you're going to throw a party if one was going to school party and ask you to be involved yeah what would be the rate for that like between everything with the bathrooms and the whole thing it probably goes up to about fifty thousand dollars so what's the most expensive and extravagant party well I would say we did one last year I would say that was a good half Mill by the time it was all finished so well and I'm done yeah if you give me a discount soon as we're best friends now yes starting what are you gonna do get married to someone of the Irish fellow we'll cater your wedding in the Hamptons yeah the boy first I'll work on it all right I'll be back to you next year [Music] when you're in the business of flashing your cash there's nothing flashier than a red Ferrari or so you'd think in the Hamptons big players are ranked by their choice of Supercar and lanciodkin is their dealer of choice so we buy and sell rare collectible and exotic cars so we buy from all over the United States and we sell worldwide uh We've sold several cars to Ireland really I've got customers and clients in Dublin uh We've shipped cars to the Middle East to Europe to Asia what was the most expensive car that you sent to our Fair Shores the Bugatti Veyron two million dollar car you say who who yourself is older to good a good businessman doesn't reveal who their customers are but I I'm just gonna guess it was Final I can't tell could be [Applause] [Music] oh awesome thank you so much lad of course hopefully you enjoyed your ride at the beautiful lighthouse as well yes Montauk famous lighthouse cool so so before you go back to Manhattan yeah the choice of the 2017 Bentley bentaga right it was a 2009 Ferrari F430 Spider which one are you gonna choose how much does this cost 250 000. that's 150 000 250 000. it's nice it's nice Lance it's very nice but I'm gonna have to stay with my old favorite here because we've got a relationship by now it looks good on you you know what I think it does should I take some photos yeah just for your website for your company because I think I could really sell this thing for you of course it just looks good on you something something like that [Music] I think that adds something to it this is just me relaxing come on let's get in you can bring me back to the city off to Manhattan we go yeah let's go [Music] oh still still can't get in like a lady still can't do it you're in the Big Apple perhaps more than anywhere else in America the gap between the super rich and everyone else is huge some are blown into money others like the Irish woman I'm about to meet aren't theirs by knowing what the wealthy want and serving it up to them girl Jane wogan knows our dark model a red carpet reporter and a businesswoman to her list of achievements my list of achievements includes putting the Welly race in fifth class being able to eat an entire packet of biscuits in under two minutes and having a degree in acting I hope she doesn't feel too intimidated while enjoying a cocktail with me tonight a former model in red carpet reporter Jane is the niece of the late grade Terry wogan since 1993 she and her husband Richie Notre have co-owned the famous Nobu restaurant chain along with New York Legend and all around goodfella Robert De Niro when it comes to living the high life in Manhattan Jane knows what she's talking about Shane good call thank you cheers talk me to what's the lifestyle of the typical wealthy New Yorker well it's a never ending stream of spending and New York is a hard place to be if you're not successful and there is definitely a hierarchy in New York that you only get to know the more you live here with a thing that kills incredibly wealthy people is they think we have all this money but then they'll go to a nightclub and they'll have to pay 30 000 to sit at a table for bottle service and then they'll look over and there's another velvet Road in there well how's it again it's a constant state of anxiety it's like Zoolander that scene where they just keep going there's more ropes until there's pretty much that's pretty much how it is yeah spender the the private members clubs then there are the everyone eats out of New York but you can't do that and only anywhere you have to eat out like in a certain restaurants certain days of the week like people have certain days of the week so the Polo Bar on Fifth Avenue I think the day to eat that you can't get a reservation in there okay but the day to eat is I believe a Wednesday as long as it's not summer because the last thing you want to do is humiliate yourself and be in the city at a week over the weekend in the summer how do you use rules or is it just something that you have I remember when I came here first and at the time we didn't have a house in the Hamptons I said you know what I'm thinking of buying a house in the Hamptons and I he said what would you what kind of house would you like I said I really don't mind as long as I'm overlooking the sea Lisa but then when I realized every weekend the city emptied out yes I thought oh I'm a pariah I'm a social Pariah someone hasn't invited me to their house or we don't buy this house really quickly like what am I gonna do I'm sure yeah massive pressure they say there are two things that never sleep this town and money Wall Street eight blocks of banks Brokers stock exchanges and corporate finance houses in lower Manhattan the most powerful economic Citadel in the world every day billions change hands here foreign [Music] and Ryan originally from Dundrum ronan's company IEX uses super fast software to help buy and sell stocks in a fraction of a second he got a chapter all to himself in one of the most popular recent books on Wall Street Flash Boys written by Moneyball author Michael Lewis claimed that Ronin didn't look like a Wall Street Trader but looks can be deceiving [Music] relatively speaking to the other stock exchanges that exists how big are you guys we've grown fairly rapidly right so like on a global scale we're bigger than exchanges like the Australian stock exchange Toronto Stock Exchange we're obviously behind the New York Stock Exchange right now and NASDAQ the big exchanges in the US yeah but we're doing like several hundred million shares a day and I don't know if you can see the screen here like right now today notional we've done 5.2 billion dollars that's how much money is traded hands just through our systems today alone also I know that you oh yeah yep like to be written about well that was it was crazy I I kind of always equate it do you ever hear your voice you know on TV or an answer machine you'd think you sound like a complete tool yes you got to read about yourself in a book when I read the book and then my wife read like specifically there was one chapter called ronan's Problem yeah and my right friend and she said yeah he nailed you that's exactly you so much okay yeah did you think it was like you were told or it had a little bit here or there I mean so he's going to make the story more interesting and maybe had me use more colorful language than I normally do or I've since tried to not do as much but um yeah it was like a funny story when the book came out and I saw the table of contents it's like ronan's problem it was pretty like oh no yeah and I I went home that night was like sort of like Willy Wonka the golden ticket I ran past my wife went in to start reading it and I turned right of course to my chapters she did yeah and the first line had me as like a Irish famine Survivor or something like that and I'm like Jesus I must read on this is going to be interesting but it got more endearing as I right on so it was great it was it was a really really good experience besides the fact that I have a lot of bad language in there I'm kind of proud of you know when my kids get around to reading it not everyone can say their dad's in a book so those are the ancillary things that are kind of cool there's this kind of idea of like work hard play hard it can get in New York and you got you know place in the Hamptons is that like is that just a myth that people have about New Yorkers and the kind of people who are making money and being successful maybe sometimes the myth is attributed that it's all Wall Street lives this way works hard plays hard goes out to The Hamptons I mean Wall Street has evolved too so there's less of that there's less of the rich guys with the big cigars that you see on the floor of the stock exchange from the 1980s and the 90s a lot of this if you look as quiet rooms like this these are computer developers this is it's a very different type of Personality than existed before yeah it's a great career there's great money to be made in it yeah but the party Lifestyles definitely calm down when does the countdown up there what is that for yeah so that's a countdown to four o'clock the market closes every day at four o'clock okay and what we do is at four o'clock is we ring a bell here it's just a historical thing so all of the exchanges have some sort of bell mechanism at 9 30 every morning to open their exchange yeah and at four o'clock to close that Exchange thank you [Applause] [Music] in this town appearance is everything the super rich take their fashion very seriously and to be a successful designer in Manhattan you need to know your clientele [Music] thank you been really honest I'm not really a fashion girl myself I mean this entire dress costs six quid on eBay nevertheless I've come here today to meet awesome carry designer Don O'Neill Don is just the likes of Oprah Taylor Swift Khloe Kardashian and today these promise to show me around a lot of this club [Music] thank you a former designer for Christian aqua and bajli Mishka Don is the creative director of fashion house there couturier to the Stars in school I was the you know the kind of girl who always got like the best personality as opposed to like because I'm the class I used to get the best personality because in the acne I got the personality exactly yeah I was like you know the fat one and the glasses the ugly everything else so I think I'm still in my mind when it comes to like looking good and wearing fashionable things I like I think it's more for somebody else and for like a younger thinner richer person than me well the whole idea about me and what I do at hair you know tears the Great Goddess of light my brand is all about your inner goddess shining bright when she comes out no one sees anything else so you've dressed the likes of Khloe Kardashian yes and the Kardashians are very important from the point of view of body shape so many girls they think they have to Aspire to being a very singular skinny body type which they don't have and these girls have promotional curves and made curves acceptable and curves Embrace their shape and then you go the whole way through to someone like Taylor Swift and Taylor is a whole other body type which we've also addressed I embrace all women in all shapes because there's so many girls out there and I have been one of them who you just feel like it's not going to ever be something that you're a part of the fashion world because as we've just discussed you don't think you're perfect you don't think you're perfect and they are the Kardashians do celebrate a very hourglass silhouette they do yeah which is lovely well done I would absolutely love to see some of your dresses when you show me so I sent Goonies here come on down oh my god oh I'm very excited so these gooners are part of the Fall collection that could be going into shops in August September of this year like I want to look like when people see me like oh she's from New York no oh she is I know it's a big ask okay [Music] so here we have the Khloe Kardashian and it's all about the leg yes you showed me how to do the leg so this is the dress you wore so the question is now [Music] we'll work on this laughs red is definitely your color I do not really true true that until now it's very elegant but it's really sexy at the same time [Music] so then I also believe that you design wedding dresses I do so would you like to try or not okay I've tried this on but I haven't seen it so I don't know what it looked like in a hotel Don is my bridesmaid and uh oh wow oh that's really weird that's oh my gosh you look stunning in this I'm really hoping that Colin Farrell might be watching the show tonight and just goes that's the one that's the girl [Music] thank you I don't know about you but when I'm refused entry to an eye Club I usually get a battered sausage and cry all the way home with a taxi but for Sligo boy Patrick green there was no time for Tears or sausages when he was barred from a Swanky New York club instead Patrick opened the green roof a VIP concierge service [Music] today he's the go-to guy for five star events at the best clubs and eateries in New York basically if you're with Patrick you're getting in one time like best nightclub in New York City and the Protestant with this one first page and we signed up for a guest list and we just walked up thinking we were going to get the VIP treatment and whatnot and we were told all that the Restless doesn't catch you in a guarantee you entry or anything like that ended up making an inquiry to one or two nightclubs and would you be interested in if I could bring maybe 30 or 40 people to your Venue one night and it just so happened that they were very very open to it and it kind of went from there and you worked with one venue and a Friday night and another venue on a Saturday night and yeah just kind of went from now is bringing them a big passing from drogheda what would you arrange for a night out for us just say for example if you were to email me and said oh I'm coming with 10 girls that'd be perfect I could put you on the guest list and take care of a few drinks and everything straight away the thing is there's no cost at all by going through me we're paid by the nightclub to make sure that the venue is full but in New York there's just so much competition that every venue was fighting against each other and have the right crowd in do you have any particularly Super Rich kind of wealthy clients that you could tell us about you'd have like CEOs of the Wall Street Banks you know you're the VP of American Express credit Swiss until today you just had this guy come in from um Abu Dhabi and he's just like a prince he doesn't even drink alcohol but he still spent ten thousand dollars on a table so if you want to talk about the best party that you're involved in this year what would it be I suppose the best thing I've been involved with would be the Conor McGregor after party yeah it was cool it was the biggest biggest night the nightclub it had in many years and it was amazing because initially when I when I talked to her and I tell about it and I said you know there's the demand is so big for him they didn't really believe it until just seeing that there's 25 tables in the nightclub and every one of them were sold for um nothing under eight thousand dollars for his after party I mean we've got some drinks we've got an amazing bar do you wanna cause some trouble [Music] in this town everybody wants to live the high life [Music] in a city where everybody wants to be a VIP it pays to have your name on the list as I'm about to discover for those who can afford it the sky's the limit my two greatest fears in life are cold baked beans and fly no fortunately for me the Rich and Famous do not care about beans what they do love to fly so I've come here today to meet helicopter pilot to the Rich and Famous Andrew Woods originally from Hull and he's going to take me for a spin in his helicopter I know that I'm in capable hands I know that you're a man who has flown some very well-known and uh successful types personal members of our royal family from a European country who don't want to be named yeah but Sloan Jennifer Lawrence she was an absolutely amazing woman and I flew her up to Upstate New York a personal favor of mine is Chris Martin from the band Coldplay so I understand that most people get um helicopter for Hamptons as well on Thursdays and Fridays and Saturdays most of our helicopters are chewing and throwing with people from The Hamptons so Andrew if I was gonna um lease your helicopter take me to The Hamptons what kind of price racket am I looking at in our 407 for six passengers I can take you to the Hamptons and return for in and around five thousand dollars wow this is loose change for some of these people you you're talking about the one percent yeah it's not the price it's having what they want when they want us and fast [Music] uh did I mention I'm terrified of flying [Music] [Music] foreign from up here I'm reminded and by reminded I mean that someone told me that for nearly 200 years the Irish have been at the Forefront of construction in New York City from the iron workers that built the first towers of Manhattan to the construction companies that service the skyscrapers of the 21st century this place has its nicknames the Big Apple Gotham but it could have been called Emerald City because of Ireland not because everyone looks like a munchkin from up here New York skyline is home to some of the world's most impressive erections architecture today I'm eating Irishman John Fitzpatrick and he's going to show me around what looks like a construction site but but still rental properties for those working in the financial district also I think I'm probably rocking this look [Music] Caribbean thank you so much hey John everyone how are you thank you so much for having me welcome to 118 Fulton Street oh well thank you so much should we have a look around you can show me the size please have a look around maybe we'll rent an apartment here you know what maybe I will I mean looking around us John I can already see I've got quite a view if I do want to stunning View so what do you guys do what are you what's your business about our scope of work on a job here yeah we would lay out all the drywall partitions all the walls on the job all the doors the kitchen layout the bedroom there we're responsible for laying out the whole building top to bottom even the retail faces on the ground floor what's this going to eventually look like how many apartments are going to be on this floor so this building is about six hundred thousand square feet over 63 floors right now we're standing on the 50th floor and there are about roughly nine eight nine ten Apartments per floor oh okay and they're going to be rental properties this this particular building are all rentals yes so if I was going to rent an apartment here what would I be looking for a month the two bedrooms could run you up as maybe five six thousand dollars wow down on the lower floors the apartments would be cheaper because you don't have the view so yeah the higher up you go typically the more the more you pay for rent oh do you know how much this whole building costs again all the work that's going into what are you looking at at the end probably shooting us about 200 million dollars from digging out the foundation or maybe if there's an existing building here before to topping out this one and all the finishes and all that people I'm sure they make their money back I hope they do because then this way we'll get paid it's more important than anything else [Music] when I was 25 I ate cereal every night for my dinner and was in a first name basis with the security guard the Dole office for bizarrely for a large 25 year olds that isn't considered living the dream I tell you who is living the dream though 25 year old Patrick Kirby from skibbereen vice president of social video platform glass view Ever Seen Those ads for Swanky Brands like Christian Dior and Ralph Lauren pop up on your mobile yeah Patrick's company distributes those [Music] we've seen that you know consumer demand in certain industries is flattering but digital video on Market is is really really increasing steadily at the market this year is what we do is we work with large Global Brands to get their video content seen online right so you know working with Brands all over the world and myself and the CEO J we actually spend a lot of time on the road traveling oh cool we've got offices in you know Paris London we're obviously headquartered here in New York we've also got offices in Tokyo and Singapore if you looked at the world's most richest people we're working with actually a lot with Our Brands and companies we probably work with 30 of the top 50 brands in the world I heard is someone who's 25 get to be in this position but get to be so successful and doing so well in your life I didn't really waste any time so I did a masters straight after my undergrad and I came out here within one month so Patrick I know that you're mentored by millionaires in that year around billionaires as well what kind of Lifestyle do these people leave what kind of things are they into generally you know normal people a lot of them have houses in nice places in the Hamptons and places in Minnesota France properties in Hong Kong you know Australia all these kind of places but um I think quite quite normal to be honest oh wow it's amazing isn't it this is awesome Patrick really nice day great place to come you know to kind of de-stress during the day yes this is Madison Avenue one of the most famous Avenues in New York City Patrick's come a long way in a short time and that's no easy thing in this town the streets of Manhattan may not be paved with gold but it's always good to put your best foot forward on that note I'm off to meet Dubliner and shoe designer Eileen Shields her clients are well healed in more ways than one I know that you've designed shoes for some very beautiful feet you've got like Angelina Jolie and Drew Barrymore and you've also just designed for sex in the city in Desperate Housewives yeah that's like amazingly exciting shows and people to be involved with well that was with my own collection that I had for 10 years I also worked for Danny Karen for 10 years prior to that wow so I was dressing and doing shoes for all of her people as well which was Demi Moore Barbra Streisand all those people through the 90s well I I would love to have a look at some of your designs and some of your ideas I'd love to show you I should bring you into the studio it's just right here this is exciting oh wow okay so where would you like to start well this collection here Marley is a collection that I've we're launching in September and I'm working with an incredible group of people that we all co-owned together I've pulled in a designer Adele Clark from London who's also Irish oh um and she's in London so we're doing this New York London Hong Kong brand that's why and I know you worked on Desperate Housewives and sex in the city with two amazing shows and to have any stories about those well actually Desperate Housewives is really hilarious because when I got the call you know we're like have you got something that's in the works right now because we really need them for Ava Longoria with a very special heel height and it needs to be customed on for her feet and I was like oh I've got the very thing and I'm there I'm pulling them out of the bin I'm actually I just edited them out of the collection they were out I was not going to make them they're not going to happen and I was like oh I have the very thing and I was like yeah I'll send it over the sketches right now so then it became a huge thing and these were the ones that I actually made for them for that and so but hers were like this High yeah and her feet are this tiny little dinky yeah the things that I've done you know Michelle Obama was wearing the shoes going into the White House and my all-time favorite was doing shoes for Miss Piggy I think that's the highlight of my career so we got Miss Piggy feet sent to us so we're like these little and we built the shoes on them she looks amazing I know it was it was just incredible doing those shoes for her so I I have as I said here I've got this event to go to on Thursday night but I need some shoes it's really kind of personal itself to you really everyone so maybe what I'll do is I'll give you a few okay to try great and then you try them on with the clothing and see how you feel well these are I kind of I love the idea of you wearing like either the skinny heels or you go into something that's kind of really modern yeah I don't do well with very skinny heels I'm a kind of wobble around an awful lot also sometimes truth be told I have a little drink in me so that's also doesn't help with the suede to side to side [Music] [Music] foreign I was a little cynical about the lavish lifestyles of the one percent but I must admit there's something very seductive about the super rich in the Wonderland of the wealthy you start feeling a bit like Alice which is to say you're never quite sure where the dream ends and reality begins we can't all be millionaires but the business of helping the super rich spend their money well there's something kind of Priceless about that [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 49min 11sec (2951 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 18 2023