Poor Castellanes have to Live on £120 000 a Year.
The reckless extravagance of the Uount and Countess Castellane has been put a stop to at last. The Countess, it will be remembered, is a daughter of the late millionaire Jay Gould, and has an income of £120,000 a year. Since her marriage in May, 1895, she and her husband have spent more than £600,000, and incurred debts to to the amount of £BBO,OOO. Now a canseil de famille has obtained a judicial decision for the appointment of a legal guardian. The sister of the Countess (Miss Helen Gould) will now make it her business to see that she does not exceed her allowance.
So in future the poor Castellanes have to live on £120,000 a year. Isn’t it awful?
This peculiar method of the French law fcr checking reckless extravagance 1 as much to be said for it, and if the interference of the family was ever needed it was in this case.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue X, 9 March 1901, Page 470
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164Poor Castellanes have to Live on £120 000 a Year. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue X, 9 March 1901, Page 470
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